Ex-Australian ISIS bride Zehra Duman was freed by the Turkish courtroom after a couple of months in jail

Former Australian citizen and the primary ‘ISIS Bride’ from Australia, Zehra Duman, has been residing in Turkey with two kids. In November 2020, she was launched by the Turkish courtroom. Notably, in September 2020, she was sentenced to virtually seven years in a Turkish jail for being a member of a terrorist group. Duman held twin citizenship of Australia and Turkey until mid-2019. She was stripped of her Australian citizenship over connections with Islamic State (IS) terrorist group.
Duman and her kids had been amongst 70 Australian girls and youngsters taken to the al-Hawl detention camp in northeast Syria after the autumn of IS in 2019. During an interview, she mentioned she needed to return to Australia. However, 4 months later, in a letter to Duman, she was knowledgeable by the Australian authorities that her Australian citizenship had been revoked.
Zehra Duman, an Australian lady who had joined ISIS and had known as for genocide towards non-Muslims, picture through The Australian The letter acknowledged, “The Minister for Home Affairs has become aware of conduct because of which you, as a national or citizen of a country other than Australia, namely Turkey, have ceased to be an Australian citizen … Specifically, the Minister has become aware that you were in the service of Islamic State outside Australia.”
Later, Duman fled al-Hawl and entered Turkey with the assistance of smugglers. However, she was arrested whereas doing so. In September final yr, a courtroom in Sanliurfa, a southern Turkish metropolis, sentenced her to 6 years and ten months in jail for being related to ISIS. Two months later, she appeared earlier than a courtroom in Gaziantep, one other southern Turkish City. The courtroom launched her as she was the one individual in a position to deal with her kids, Layla and Jarrah. Duman is having fun with her life in an unknown location in Turkey.
Duman’s statements in Turkish courts
ABC acquired entry to the paperwork that allegedly had the statements made by Duman through the listening to in Turkish courts. According to ABC, it’s unclear if Turkish authorities did something to confirm the statements. According to her assertion, she was compelled to remarry twice, and all her husbands had been killed through the Syrian battle. She alleged that ISIS jailed her in 2017 when she tried to go away the group. Her first little one was born from the second husband and the second little one from the third husband whereas she was in Syria.
Duman blamed her ‘problematic’ childhood
During the listening to, Duman blamed her childhood for her leaning in the direction of Islam and ISIS. Her mother and father’ divorce, unhealthy relationships, breakups and despair throughout her teenagers allegedly pushed her in the direction of Islam. During her late teenagers in 2014, Mahmoud Abdullatif, a celebration boy turned fundamentalist Islamist reached out to her. She mentioned, “Mahmoud found me and got in touch with me through social media. He knew that I’m naïve and I had a tough life. He told me, ‘I’m going to give you a beautiful life.’ I believed in him.” At the age of 19, she travelled to Turkey after which Syria in 2014.
ISIS terrorist Zehra Duman in an outdated {photograph} along with her mom, picture through SBSOne Abu Bakr smuggled her into ISIS territory and positioned her in one of many IS homes the place single girls had been stored. A month later, Abdullatif took her to Raqqa, and so they acquired married. Where she lived, a number of Australian ISIS recruits, together with Sydney-born ISIS terrorist Khaled Sharrouf, had been additionally residing. In January 2015, Abdullatif was killed in an airstrike.
After Iddah, a ready interval noticed by Muslim girls after a divorce or the loss of life of their husband, she married Nedol. During that interval, she travelled to Iraq. He was killed in an airstrike in 2016. She was pregnant at the moment with Jarrah. She returned to Syria and gave delivery to her first little one. After the delivery, she was left on the road. She tried to flee Syria however was recaptured by ISIS with the assistance of Turkish authorities.
When she was spending time in jail, an Arab-Australian man recognized by her as Baran met her and provided to marry her. She acquired pregnant along with her second little one after she married, and in 2018, Baran was killed within the battle. After ISIS’s fall, she ended up within the al-Hawl detention camp in Syria.
Duman was closely radicalized
Notably, through the time she drifted in the direction of ISIS, there have been a number of incidents in her life that give a glimpse of her radicalization. She was finest buddies with Tara Nettleton, the spouse of Khaled Sharrouf, one other Australian who had joined ISIS. Duman was ‘famous’ for recruiting naïve minds for the terrorist group.
Duman’s first husband Abullatif, who was quickly killed in an airstrike, picture through SBSDuman had posted inflammatory content material on her social media profiles, together with tweets mocking western authorities, pledging to kill non-Muslims and pictures of herself with weapons. When she acquired married to Abdullatif, her husband had written, “I got married today. Alhumdolileh (praise be to god) I made hijra (pilgrimage) and got married here man, Insha Allah I receive a beautiful death as well.”

Soon after the marriage, she began to put up infamous posts on social media platforms. In one tweet, she wrote, “US + Australia, how does it feel that all 5 of us were born n raised in your lands, & nowhere thirsty for ur blood?” In one other tweet, she mocked safety businesses and wrote, “catch me if you can”, and known as for her followers to poison Kafirs (non-Muslims). She wrote, “Stab them and poison them. Poison your teachers, go to haram restaurants and poison the food in large quantities.”
In 2019, after the autumn of ISIS, she mentioned in an interview that she needed to return to Australia. She mentioned, “Both of my kids are sick. [My daughter is] very malnourished, she’s … very skinny. I have no money, I’m not allowed to have money. They don’t give us food here and they don’t let us contact our families. I understand the anger that they have towards a lot of us here, but the kids don’t need to suffer. My kids have a right at least to be treated like normal kids.”

Duman was one in every of over a dozen Australians who had been stripped of their citizenships by the Australian authorities for having connections to a terrorist group. Notably, the Australian authorities revoked the citizrnship of solely these terrorists who had twin citizenship. Those who solely have Australian citizenship had been unnoticed.