12 prisons with the militants, foreigners left without protection due to Turkish operations in Northern Syria, This could cause surge in migration of terrorists to their historical homeland, said on the first day of the week, the Russian head of the defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu.

Turkey holds 9 October in North-East Syria operation "Source of peace" against Kurdish groups. On 17 October, the US and Turkey have agreed to a temporary halt this operation for 120 hours and the withdrawal of Kurdish forces from the 30-km buffer zone on the border of Turkey and Syria, which Ankara wants to keep control of their forces.

"as a result of actions of the Turkish army in the Syrian Arab Republic without a guard had eight camps of immigrants and 12 prisons for foreign fighters. Increases the probability of the cast to burst the so-called return migration of terrorists to their historic homeland ", - said Shoigu, speaking at the plenary meeting of the Beijing Tanshanskogo forum.

According to the Minister, " there is a need of consolidation of efforts of the entire international fraternity to meet challenges of the terrorists, their ideology and propaganda ".

"the Ministry of defense of Russia in this field has accumulated a lot of experience that we are ready to share with our partners in the Asia-Pacific region ", - said Shoigu.

* A terrorist organization banned in Russia



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