UP TO 100 British jihadists who defected from Isis are stranded in Turkey because they fear imprisonment if they return to Britain.

The disillusioned jihadists — who fled the battlefields dominated by Isis, also known as Islamic State — are understood to be seeking to settle in their parents’ countries of origin, including Pakistan and Bangladesh.

In other cases, British fighters of north African and Arabic backgrounds are trying to leave Turkey for countries including Tunisia, Algeria, Yemen and Libya.

Some are understood to have escaped the Syrian cities of Aleppo and Raqqa after becoming disillusioned with spending most of their time fighting rival rebel groups instead of the forces of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.

There have been reports of British jihadists intending to