One American and 10 other medical students and graduates are thought to have traveled through Turkey to Syria in order to work in hospitals controlled by ISIS.
Mehmet Ali Ediboglu, a member of parliament from the Hatay border region, told NBC News that the students include an American, one Canadian, two Sudanese and seven British.
Ediboglu told The Observer that he had spoken with the students’ families. They were reportedly convinced their family members, who range from 19 to 25 years old, wanted to work for ISIS and they were asking him for help tracking them down in Syria.
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“They have been cheated, brainwashed. That is what I, and their relatives, think,” Ediboglu said. But he pointed to the fact that they weren’t traveling to join in with battle.
“Let’s not forget about the fact that they are doctors,” he told The Observer. “They went there to help, not to fight.”
The students, eight of which just graduated and three in their final year, had been studying in Khartoum, Sudan.
The father of one British student, Lena Maumoon Abdulqadir, told Turkey’s BirGün Daily, “If she had simply wanted to help the ill and needy, there were plenty of people in desperate need of help in Sudan and closer to home.”
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Last year, 19-year-old Colorado woman, Shannon Maureen Conley, was arrested at Denver International Airport as she was headed to join an ISIS camp where she hoped to serve as a nurse.
[Photo of Syrian map from Wikimedia Commons]
