TRINIDAD EXPRESS – Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi says local law enforcement authorities “are in the process of confirming with certainty from their foreign counterparts what the actual state of affairs really is” regarding a newspaper report out of Turkey that nine Trinidad and Tobago nationals were held there and being deported back home.

Al-Rawi made the comment in an interview with TV6 News yesterday as he revealed the State now has 74 applications before the High Court to have individuals and organisations identified on a United Nations Security Council Sanctions List designated as “terrorist entities” in Trinidad and Tobago.

Al-Rawi says the State has already been successful in its application to have the group called ISIS (also known as ISIL or Da’esh) designated as a terrorist organisation by the High Court in Trinidad and Tobago.

“If you apply it to this allegation right now in Trinidad and Tobago. If it is alleged that people are going to become members of ISIS one important step is that ISIS is recognised by our courts as a terrorist agency,” Al-Rawi told TV6 News.

The Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah has reported that nine Trinidad and Tobago nationals are expected to be deported back to Trinidad and Tobago from Turkey shortly.

The Daily Sabah reported Turkish authorities have thwarted an attempt to smuggle the nine Trinidad and Tobago nationals from southern Turkey to the ISIS terrorist organisation in Syria and that a Syrian man was held yesterday in connection with the smuggling operation. ‘

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