(Investigative Project on Terrorism) Abigail R. Esman - The Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH) has a dark side, with allegations linking it to the Islamic State. Witnesses in an ongoing Ankara trial have disclosed how IHH helped women seeking to join ISIS to cross the Turkish border into Syria in the first place, and later helped them to escape back to Turkey. Former ISIS member Elif Sancar told the Kurdish ANF news agency last summer that "the majority of ISIS women" have fled the Kurdish-run refugee and prison camps.
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