The inseparable twins, who were convicted of terrorism after traveling together to wage jihad in Syria in 2014, have been stripped of their French citizenship, according to a decree published in the official gazette on Wednesday.
Two brothers born in Gien (Loiret), now 30 years old, Tuncay and Tugay Durmaz, were sentenced to six years in prison by the Paris Criminal Court in October 2017 for terrorist criminal association, confirmed in a call a year later.
Fusion twins, from a non-practicing Muslim Turkish family, Tunke and Tuke Turmas have always done everything together: the same studies in the Loire, the same apartment, the same job as security guards, before both went to the army.
In early 2014, after being fired from the same company and returning to live with their parents, the two brothers explained during their first trial that they “became more serious on the Internet”.
In April 2014, they were still together, making their way to Syria via Turkey, hoping to “revolutionize” against Bashar al-Assad, even if it meant fighting.
They were convicted of joining the Islamic State group, benefiting from military training in Syria and carrying out surveillance and combat operations there on behalf of the jihadist group.
They returned to France via Turkey in the fall of 2014, first Tunke Durmaz, then Duke, were injured, and were not arrested until May 2016.
Since 2019, according to official statistics, about twenty national losses have been pronounced for terrorism in France.
In France, only dual citizens can lose their nationality (and thus not make a person stateless), but not those born French.
Deprivation of nationality may be determined in the case of an attack on the fundamental interests of the nation or in case of conviction for a crime or terrorist offence. It is pronounced by the decree of the Prime Minister after the approval of the Council of State.
