Innocent dad with same name as former Manchester paratrooper grilled over 'links to Syria' then kicked out of Turkey
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA dad-of-three says he was booted out of Turkey and forced to fly back to the UK because he shares the same name as a man from Manchester who had terror charges against him dropped.
Daniel Burke, 36, said his children and partner were 'terrified' and in tears when 'heavy-handed' Turkish military police hauled the family into a room at Dalaman Airport and questioned him about his 'links to Syria'.
He told how the Turkish authorities stamped 'cancel' on his passport and he was forced to fly back, leaving a planned family holiday in tatters. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features. After arriving home, Mr Burke said a friend of his daughter's found stories about another man also called Daniel Burke of the same age, reports the Mirror.
The Manchester Evening Newsreported in 2020 on former paratrooper Mr Burke, from Baguley, Wythenshawe. Two weeks after the Manchester Arena bombing, in 2017, he travelled out to Syria to fight against so-called Islamic State with the Kurdish YPG militia, but after he returned to the UK, he found himself arrested, charged with terror offences and locked up at HMP Wandsworth prison in London - where he was wrongly labelled as a jihadi by other prisoners.
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