KABUL: (Middle East Press) Nine British medical students have reportedly traveled to Syria to join the ISIL militants by serving at field hospitals run by the Takfiri group.
A report released by Observer on Saturday states that the team of medical students involves four female and five male students.
The students have been identified as Maumoon Abdulqadir, Nada Sami Kader, Rowan Kamal Zine El Abidine, Tasneem Suleyman Huseyin, Ismail Hamadoun, Tamer Ahmed Ebu Sebah, Mohamed Osama Badri Mohammed, Hisham Mohammed Fadlallah, and Sami Ahmed Kadir.
The students flew from the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to Istanbul in Turkey on March 12, and headed for the border with Syria by bus a day after.
“We all accept that they are in Tel Abyad now, which is under ISIS control. The conflict out there is fierce, so medical help must be needed,” the Observer quoted Turkish opposition politician Mehmet Ali Ediboglu as saying on Saturday, using the alternative for ISIL.
The Turkish opposition figure made the remarks after a meeting with the families of the medical students at the Turkey-Syria border.
The families are reportedly making a desperate effort to persuade the students to come back home.
“They have been cheated, brainwashed. That is what I, and their relatives, think,” Ediboglu said, adding that three of the students, who are all in their late teens or early 20s, had been graduated and the others were medical students in Khartoum.
“These kids were born and raised in England, but they were sent to Sudan to study at medical school,” Ediboglu said.
