Turkey–ISIL conflict

Malaysia was accused April 7 of waging an assault on civil rights as parliament passed a tough anti-terrorism law aimed at countering Islamic militancy.
      

Twenty people were detained April 4 in the south-central province of Kilis for allegedly trying to cross illegally into Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Turkish military has said.

A Turkish man who is accused of joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has told court in a landmark case that he went to Syria not to fight, but "to live in a place governed under Sharia law."

The Chief Public Prosecutor's Office filed a court case in Ankara April 4 against Musa Gökta? for allegedly joining a terrorist group in Syria, according to Anadolu Agency.

Tunisia on April 2 accused Turkey of facilitating the transit of fighters bound for neighbouring Syria and Iraq, where thousands of its citizens have joined the ranks of jihadist groups.
 

Four Russian nationals were detained on April 2 after trying to illegally cross into Syria from southern Turkey, a statement released by Gaziantep's governorship said.
      
Officials added that the detainees have been sent to the foreigners' office, a branch of the Turkish police, for deportation.
      

Turkish security forces arrested nine British nationals trying to cross illegally into Syria, the Turkish military said in a statement on April 1. 

The Britons were arrested near Hatay province on the Turkish side of the Syrian border. It was not clear why the nine people were trying to cross the frontier. 

Security forces launched simultaneous operations on the houses of students who were allegedly involved in student group clashes at universities in the capital Ankara last month.

Five Dutch citizens have been detained while trying to cross from Turkey to Syria illegally, the Turkish army announced in a statement on March 29.

According to the General Staff statement, a total of 97 foreigners, 92 of them Syrian citizens, tried to cross into Syria on March 28.

Military officials from Turkey and U.S. have agreed to deploy armed drones to Adana?s ?ncirlik airbase to help in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL).

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) and the Democratic Union Party (PYD), an offshoot of the PKK, are being legitimized thanks to their fight against jihadists in Syria, Turkish Chief of Staff Gen. Necdet Özel has said.