A British teenager became the first British citizen convicted of trying to join the fight against Islamic State in Syria.
Silhan Ozcelik, an 18 year old, ran away from home to join the Kurdistan Workers party’s women militia, a wing of the proscribed Kurdish militant PKK organisation.
Ms Ozelik was sentenced to 21 months in a young offender institution. The judged added that the teenager would “have to live with the long lasting consequences of a conviction for terrorism,” reports The Guardian.
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