The man was stuck in the heavily militarized border zone after Turkey tried to expel him to Greece on Monday but Athens refused him entry.
Turkish media have identified him as 39-year-old Mohammad Darwis B. and said he was an American citizen of Jordanian background.The ministry said Thursday the man had asked to be deported to a “third country” and chose Greece.
Turkey has engaged in a new push to deport foreign Islamic State members who are held in Turkish prisons or in Syria since it invaded parts of northeast Syria to drive away Syrian Kurdish fighters it considers to be terrorists from a border area.
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