more-inRAMANATHAPURAMMahir Devrim (43), the Turkish national who landed in police net here on Saturday night when he clandestinely arrived at Serankottai seashore in Rameswaram from Sri Lanka, has no terror links, if the interrogations conducted by different security agencies were any indication. After reaching Jaffna by road, he chose to reach Rameswaram island on being told that India would be a safe destination. After leaving Turkey, he had visited Ukraine, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Mongolia, China, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, he said. In a brief written statement, Devrim said he had married a Russian woman in August 2016 and divorced her the next year. He knew Turkish, Kurdish, Persian, Arabic, Russian and Ukrainian, he said.

Source: The Hindu April 08, 2018 14:37 UTC