The paper, quoting an unnamed Iraqi Kurdish security official, said one of the Chinese was killed in September after he became disillusioned with the ISIS and decided he wanted to study at a university in Turkey. The other two were beheaded in December along with 11 other fighters of other nationalities, the paper said.
The ISIS recently executed two Japanese nationals it captured after Tokyo refused to pay a ransom or help arrange a prisoner exchange for them. The group also killed a Jordanian pilot last month. But the extremist fighters have made no demands or videos related to Chinese citizens. China's Foreign Ministry, at a regular press briefing Thursday, refused to comment directly on the report.
China has been expressing increasing alarm about the number of its citizens leaving the country bound for Turkey. Hundreds of Chinese -- most believed to be ethnic Uighurs from the far western province of Xinjiang -- have been caught in recent months trying to sneak out of China without passports, and into southeast Asian countries including Vietnam.
On last September Iraqi Army Forces captured first ISIS fighter from China according to Iraqi News.
China says these migrants are “Islamic extremists” aiming to join the ISIS terrorists and possibly bring the fight back to Xinjiang. But a number of Uighur migrants interviewed in Turkey said they paid human smugglers thousands of dollars to take them out of China to escape discrimination and persecution in China.
In January, the Global Times broke a story about 10 Turkish nationals being detained in Shanghai and charged with attempting to help nine Chinese flee China on altered passports. The 10 are expected to go on trial this month.
Meanwhile informed sources says ISIS killed many of its Saudi fighters because of leaving battle filed in Kobani. In September many other foreign fighter mostly Saudis, killed by ISIS as a same reason.
Yesterday Turkey’s Interior Minister Efkan Ala claimed that About 10,000 people are banned from entering Turkey as they were suspected of joining terrorist groups.
“We have imposed entry bans on 9,955 people from 91 countries,” Minister Ala told The Anadolu Agency.