Moroccan Party Urges Repatriation of ISIS Fighters’ Children from Turkey

Othmane Ben Hamdane and his sister Fatima, both under the age of five, have been stranded in Turkey for two years. In a letter addressed to the Ministers of the Interior Abdelouafi Laftit and of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita, the secretary general of the PAM reported on their situation.

He specified that Omar Ben Hamdan, the family father, had prepared "all the documents attesting to the right of his two children to return to the motherland". "Seduced by certain parties", he had joined the Islamic State in Syria before losing his illusions. He would have started a business with the prospect of finding the means to return to the country, but he will be arrested and then taken prisoner by the Syrian Democratic Forces.

"His daughter lost her life and his wife and two other children later joined him," said the secretary general of the PAM. "Given the humanitarian situation of the two children, Othman Ben Hamdan and Fatima Ben Hamdan, we ask you to take the necessary measures to allow them to join their family in Morocco," pleaded the lawyer and leader of the PAM.