15 November 2014, 11:25 GMT
LONDON, December 8 (Sputnik) — British Prime Minister David Cameron will visit Turkey on Tuesday to discuss global terrorism and the advance of the Islamic State (IS) militant group with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Cameron's spokesperson said Monday.
"The focus, particularly given current events in Syria and Iraq and in that region, will be CT [counter terrorism] and ISIL [IS]," the spokesperson told journalists.
He added that Cameron plans to discuss measures that should be taken in order to prevent the flow of UK citizens to Syria and Iraq via the Turkish border, who are joining militant groups there. At the moment, around 500 UK nationals are believed to be fighting for the Islamic State.
14 November 2014, 05:39 GMT
"Certainly people travelling overseas from the UK to take part in terror activity is very much part of that relationship we have with [Turkey]," the spokesperson stated.
The Islamic State is a Sunni jihadi group that has been fighting the Syrian government since 2012. In June 2014, it launched an offensive in Iraq, seizing vast areas in both countries and announcing the establishment of an Islamic caliphate on the territories under its control.
