Finland's finance minister, Katri Kulmuni has apologised for posting a poll on whether the government should allow Finnish women with links to IS to return from Syria, or just their children
Finland's finance minister deleted an Instagram post and issued an apology on Friday after criticism by a human rights group that embarrassed the new, women-led government days after it took office.
Finland's Minister of Finance, Katri Kulmuni, has removed a poll from Instagram that related to the repatriation of women and children from Syria.The poll asked her Instagram followers whether they backed repatriating "children only" or "children and mothers" from the al-Hol camp in a part of Syria held by Kurds. Kulmuni's Centre Party opposes letting the mothers return to Finland.
Kulmuni, 32, said she had been expressing the views of the Centre Party which she leads, highlighting divisions on the issue with other parties in the five-party governing coalition. But the children cannot be repatriated without their mothers because the Syrian Kurdish forces oppose separating the children and their mothers, Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said.
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