REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Turkish government will deport 12 of the 16 Indonesian nationals who were detained in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey, according to the police.

"The Turkish government will deport 12 of the 16 Indonesian nationals," Deputy Chief of the National Police of Indonesia, Commissioner General Badrodin Haiti, said here on Monday.

The police are prepared to investigate these Indonesian citizens.

"They can return immediately if proven to have not committed any criminal offense," he added.

"The investigation will be carried out after they are deported. The examination of the suspected terrorists will continue 24x7," he stated.

Earlier, the National Police released the names of the 16 Indonesian nationals who were detained in government shelters in Turkey. They are:

1. Ririn Andrian Sawir (AH's wife)

2. Qorin Munadiyatul Haq (AH's daughter)

3. Nayla Syahidah (AH's daughter)

4. Jauza Firdaus Nuzula (AH's daughter)

5. Ikrimah Waliturohman (AH's daughter)

6. Alya Nur Islam (AH's daughter)

7. Agha Rustam Rohmatullah (AH's son)

8. Abdurahman Umarov (AH's son)

9. Tiara Nurmayanti Marlekan (MH's wife)

10. Syifa Hidayah Kalashnikova (MH's daughter)

11. Daeng Stanzah (from Ciamis, West Java)

12. Ifah Syarifah (DS's wife)

13. Ishaq (DS's son)

14. Asiyah Mujahidah (DS's daughter)

15. Aisyahnaz Yazmin (from Bandung, West Java)

16. Muhammad Ihsan Rais (from Ciamis, West Java)

The National Police started negotiating with Turkish authorities to interrogate the 16 Indonesians detained in Turkey.

"We are negotiating with Turkish authorities to interrogate the 16 Indonesians," spokesperson for the National Police, Brigadier General Anton Charliyan, affirmed.

The police have been cooperating with the National Counterterrorism Agency, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the National Intelligence Agency to investigate what motivated these 16 Indonesians to go to Turkey and find out who sponsored their trip.

He remarked that the team has not been able to question the 16 Indonesians directly due to Turkey's bureaucratic constraints.

According to Charliyan, the 16 Indonesians are in good health. The police have yet to study the article to apprehend them.

"It will depend on the result of the investigation. If they are found to have joined ISIS, they can be captured. So we must first analyze all facts properly," he pointed out.

Moreover, Vice President Jusuf Kalla noted that Turkish authorities could prevent unwanted infiltrations into Syria, but it was a difficult task due to the large number of tourists in the country.

Kalla added that the 16 Indonesians who went to Turkey did not necessarily want to join ISIS in Syria.

The vice president also affirmed that the governments of Indonesia and Turkey were cooperating to address radicalism, particularly related to the phenomenon of numerous people joining ISIS.

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