TURKISH officials have deported a suspected Brit ISIS fighter back to the UK.
The suspect was arrested by Met police at Heathrow after he was booted out of Ankara with seven German terrorists.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "Officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command have today, 14 November, arrested a man on suspicion of terrorism offences.
"The 26-year-old man was arrested after arriving at Heathrow airport on an inbound flight to the UK from Turkey.
"He was arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts under section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006.
"He was detained under PACE and currently remains in police custody. The arrest is Syria-related."
It comes after after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched a no-nonsense drive to repatriate all terror suspects held in his jails.
Earlier this week an American ISIS fighter who was kicked out of Turkey was left stranded in 'no man's land' after Greece refused to let him in.
However, Greek border cops refused him entry when he tried to cross into their country near the town of Kastanies.
Darwis – a US citizen of Jordanian descent – is then reported to have spent the night stuck between the country's two borders.
One unnamed official reportedly said he had earlier refused to be sent back to the US and had asked to be sent to Greece instead.
The Turkish television channel Haber 7 later broadcast a clip of the man dressed in dark clothes waving at the camera from the strip of land between the two border posts.
Darwis, who was named by Turkey's Demiroren News Agency, is still seemingly stuck between the two countries.
Witnesses said he had been trying to shout to reporters on the Turkish side.
A spokesperson for the US State Department said it was "aware of reports of the detainment of a US citizen by Turkish authorities" but could not comment further due to "privacy considerations".
President Erdogan is due to visit Washington on Wednesday when he is expected to discuss the fate of foreign fighters caught in ISIS ranks.
It's not our concern
He has said that some 2,500 foreign ISIS fighters are in prison in Turkey – and has vowed to deport them all.
Asked to comment on Darwis' situation, Erdogan said: "Whether [the deported Isis fighters] are stuck there at the border it doesn’t concern us. We will continue to send them. Whether they take them or not, it is not our concern.”
On Monday Erdoğan began deporting foreign members of ISIS held in custody, in a policy that risks diplomatic fallout with its European allies.
Speaking to reporters in Ankara this week, Erdoğan threatened that Turkey could release all of its jailed foreign militants and send them to Europe.
He said: "You should revise your stance towards Turkey, which at the moment holds so many Isis members in prison and at the same time controls those in Syria.
"These gates will open and these Isis members who have started to be sent to you will continue to be sent. Then you can take care of your own problem."
It comes just weeks after the Turkish interior minister said Turkey was not a "hotel" for ISIS fighters.
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Suleyman Soylu also criticised Western nations for their reluctance to take back citizens who had joined the ranks of the extremist militant group.
He claimed about 1,200 foreign fighters were in Turkish prisons and 287 members, including women and children, were recaptured during Turkey's offensive in Syria.
Several European countries, including Britain, have stripped ISIS fighters of their nationalities to prevent their return, he complained.
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