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Most people on cruise ships relaxation. But there are exceptions: Interpol warns that militant Islamists use the luxury cruiser to go to jihad in the Middle East.

Jihadists from Europe seem to have discovered a new way to travel to the war zones of the Middle East. According to the findings of Interpol numerous militant Islamists have come on cruise ships in Turkey in recent months. From there they are then traveled to Iraq and Syria to the “Islamic State” to join (IS) and other terrorist groups.

“Because they know that airports are now monitored more closely, they now use cruise ships to go into these areas,” Interpol-director Pierre St. Hilaire told the news agency AP. If the luxury cruiser invest in ports in the region, the jihadists took the opportunity undetected to disembark. “There is evidence that these people travel with the ships mainly in the Turkish coastal town of Izmit and other places,” St. Hilaire said. This development was only discovered in the last three months by the authorities. How many jihadists have taken this path so far, is not known.

Interpol calls, therefore, that the passenger lists of cruise ships will continue to checked as accurate as the passenger lists of airplanes. “We need a greater exchange of information to prevent these trips and to identify the suspects,” demanded St. Hilaire. US cruise companies are already committed. compare their passenger lists to the records of the US authorities. In Europe, this is not yet the case.

Militant Islamists:Federal government wants to stop jihad tourists

Turkey has nabbed by its own account in the last few months hundreds of suspected foreign jihadists at airports and bus terminals. Under pressure from the EU and the United States Ankara has intensified its actions against potential Syrian fighters. This has obviously meant that the extremists now evade on cruise ships.

The federal government wants to plans potential of Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière jihad tourists escape the identity card or passport and exhibit them for a replacement document. This year, German authorities have prevented claims to so far 20 Islamic militants to travel to Syria. They were suspected of wanting to join there terrorist organizations such as the IS and the Nusra Front – therefore these people in the passport was revoked.

The UN Security Council had committed in September in a resolution called upon all States of the world, to prosecute citizens who travel abroad for terrorist purposes or about to return from a terrorist camp to their home country. Governments must now adjust and tighten their laws accordingly.

A total of about 15,000 Islamists from 81 countries are involved in the war to Syria and Iraq, according to findings of Interpol so far. The police department pointed out that not all foreign fighters from Europe or the USA come – also at least 300 Chinese are said to have joined the jihadists.

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