The chief of the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry’s criminal investigation department, Rafik Mambetaliyev, said on Monday that police had detected 83 cases of recruitment in Kyrgyzstan since the beginning of the conflict in Syria.
In connection with the developments in Syria, Kyrgyz police has stepped up counteraction against extremism and terrorism and fight against illegal migration, he said.
Each case of sending to Syria or recruitment was investigated, Mambetaliyev said.
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