Kosovar seeks return of Syria's son, allegedly held together with 55 Kosovars

The whole time it said I wanted to go out (Kosovo) to work that there is no perspective here, and that's a fact because we 30 members are in the family, the main one I am. The boy saw that there was nothing here and asked me if he could get his passport out because he told me he had two friends, one in Ferizaj one in Macedonia. He took the passport and told me to go to my friends in Macedonia. After a month and a half was announced, I said I have been walking a month and a half to come west, but I see myself all over the place, had gone to Syria”, he says.

After going to Syria, Agon had kept in touch with his family for months and had told them by telephone that he is repentant and wants to return to Kosovo. Murati says he tried to get the boy out of this situation but it wasn't possible.

Two years ago I was to take it, I've reached the border with Syria, Turkey. I was forced to hand over the money to pay a man who would bring the boy across the border. I handed in the money and came to the apartment, waiting for my son he called me, Dad said I took the money and asked where the hotel I was at telling me he was going to come to me. I showed the hotel and waited for it to come, but after an hour only when I saw the door to the apartment that fell on the ground four people, policemen who came and grabbed me, he says.

Murati says it was Turkish security forces that kept him in prison for 3 days and later released him to return to Kosovo.

Since the beginning of the conflict in Syria, about 317 Kosovo citizens are believed to be involved in conflicts in the Middle East. About 120 yards have been broken from there, largely disappointed with what they've faced. Approximate official figures speak of 195 people from Kosovo who are women and children in the Middle East even further.

Today, according to family members Agon is in the “Direkt” prison controlled by Kurdish forces between Syria and Iraq along with 55 other people from Kosovo. About a year ago Agon married to Syria with a girl who had also moved there from Kosovo, with whom she has a child. Murati expresses concern for his son but also for the life of Agoni's bride and their son, who are in a camp near the prison.

The international Cross was a month ago and they brought me a letter and I returned it to”

Voice of America: A letter your son wrote you?

Murat Missini: Yes, where he tells us what you're doing, why don't you try harder, here hard and bad conditions, and hard work, why aren't you working harder to get me out of here? I can never sleep, not just me, but the whole family, not just the immediate family, but the entire extended family. A smaller move if it happens right away, we think about what happened, who came, where it came from, is very bad to lose a man. When a man knows he's been killed here or there, he opens a week and he knows what's happened, but that's always holding you hostage, Murati says.

Kosovo Minister of Internal Affairs Bejtush Gashi, in a conversation for the Voice of America, said they are awaiting the return of people who continue to remain in crisis areas.

There is a expectations that they can move and this movement is included through the countries of the region and in itself contains two problems if I can name it that way. The social problem that we are forced to bring to their aid and within those movements are infiltrated groups of different kinds, and to those groups states must be prepared to respond deliberately to prevent activities that carry their risks. We as Kosovo in this direction have taken our measures by expressing ourselves willing to expect a number of them, says Gashi.

According to him, Kosovo has made all necessary preparations to wait for returnees from these areas.

“We like Kosovo the people we have in those areas are willing to wait for their reintegration in our society and at the same time the measures and actions that should be taken across one if we can say the investigation into their work and activity, but among them is a considerable number of women and children, and to them we will also have a particular treatment and all action plans are done on the complex plains for the reason that some of them need even in the health aspect to be treated and the other part in psychological terms. We expect their arrival to be prepared in the sense of institutional response, we also have objects where the ministry has available, respectively, the government, for a dignified treatment and then at other stages of the professional level of analysis for the work that they have been there, the commitments they have had there and the other measures on the overall level. It is a large number of agencies that are part of the institutional engagement groups respectively, while this commitment is headed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs”, he says.

More than 50 people are in prison with the court's firm verdict, while more than 200 are under arrest or are looking for involvement in the Middle East conflicts or inciting and recruiting foreign fighters. Kosovo has a law envisioning sentences of up to 15 years lifting freedoms for such acts.

Authorities in Kosovo say there have been no reported cases of its citizens' involvement in terrorist groups over the past two years. The latest European police report EUROOPOL stresses that Kosovo has reported a fall in propaganda and there have been no cases of financial or logistical support for terrorist groups, but the country is concerned about the return of foreign fighters.