The White House has said Turkey will now be responsible for ISIS prisoners held by the Kurds, but an invasion of northern Syria could unleash chaos that ISIS fighters would try to exploit.
currently held in Kurdish prisons in Turkey's proposed area of operations and further afield.
Kurdish officials have regularly warned that ISIS fighters are planning prison break operations, while the group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has urged followers to target jails and detention centers in Iraq and Syria. Brett McGurk, who served as the special presidential envoy for the anti-ISIS coalition until he resigned over Trump's Syria strategy in December 2018, warned that Turkey is unable and unwilling to take on responsibility for the largest detention centers in the area.
Bozkurt also warned that Erdogan's track record on battling militant Islamism in Turkey suggests he might go easy on the ISIS detainees, and possibly even try to use them for his own ends. Indeed, the president might even see these ISIS fighters and other jihadists as resources, using them to"hammer down any opposition in the region," Bozkurt suggested.from the European Union. Bozkurt said he might use the same play book but with thousands of ISIS fighters.While Trump might think he has dealt with the ISIS prisoner issue, Bozkurt warned that this is only a short-term fix.
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