Turkey deported 3000 people suspected of having links with terrorists

Turkish authorities today barred entry to Turkey about 37 thousand. Foreigners from more than 120 countries worldwide.

This was announced by press secretary of the President of Turkey, Ibrahim Kalin, informs agency Anadolu.

"From the country deported more than three thousand foreigners, who were suspected of having links with terrorist organizations", - said a spokesman for the head of state.

According to him, Ankara will be decisive and will continue to take all necessary steps in this direction.

Kalin also said that after the attacks in Brussels and other similar actualized another systematic problem - inciting Islamophobia and anti-Islamic sentiment in use as a political tool.

"We are once again faced with this phenomenon after the terrorist attacks in Brussels. Politicians, religious leaders, community leaders, media, well-known persons who form public opinion, must show greater responsibility on this issue, because the anti-Muslim remarks play into the hands of extremist terrorist organizations, such as the LIH, "Al-Qaeda", - he stressed .

Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the interpretation of the term "terorizm" should be expanded, and the terrorists consider not only the perpetrators and organizers of terrorist acts, but also all those who support such actions.

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