More than 70 percent of Kyrgyz citizens who had gone to fight in Syria – representatives of Uzbek nationality. The representative of the Secretariat of the Council of Defense of the KR Ryspek Abdysatarov announces today during the roundtable discussion about the threats from “Taliban” and ISIL” in “24.kg” news agency.

According to him, the official figures state that more than 350 citizens of Kyrgyzstan left for fighting in Syria. Unofficial figures show that there are much more such people. “There can be about a thousand people,— Ryspek Abdysatarov says. – Mostly, residents of the southern regions leave the country for Syria. And there are few representatives of the titular nation among them. We are constantly monitoring the situation and try to prevent recruitment of our citizens by ISIL”

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