AFP, Ankara :
Britain and Turkey are working “as closely as possible” to stop foreign fighters joining Islamic State insurgents in Iraq and Syria, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday.
“We are fighting a common enemy, extremist terrorism,” Cameron told a joint news conference in Ankara with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu.
Britain has said it is facing the biggest terrorism threat in its history, in part because of the fear that British jihadists returning from Syria and Iraq could launch attacks on home soil.
More than 500 Britons are believed to have crossed into Iraq and Syria to fight with IS militants. Around half of those are thought to have returned to Britain.
Britain and Turkey are working “as closely as possible” to stop foreign fighters joining Islamic State insurgents in Iraq and Syria, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday.
“We are fighting a common enemy, extremist terrorism,” Cameron told a joint news conference in Ankara with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu.
Britain has said it is facing the biggest terrorism threat in its history, in part because of the fear that British jihadists returning from Syria and Iraq could launch attacks on home soil.
More than 500 Britons are believed to have crossed into Iraq and Syria to fight with IS militants. Around half of those are thought to have returned to Britain.
