Turkey ‘encouraging’ Islamic State return in Syria

Turkey’s President Erdogan has threatened to release Islamic State members and send them back to Europe in response to EU sanctions over Cyprus.

Meanwhile a top Kurdish general – the leader of the Syrian Democratic Forces – has claimed that Turkey is actively encouraging the return of IS and that a major terror attack should now be expected in the West.

He was talking to Sky’s Middle East correspondent Mark Stone, who sent this report.

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