It's pretty much locked in now....that Turkey will deport some ISIS 'fighters' who are of German citizenship.....back into Germany this week.
The Germans aren't happy about the matter, and the Foreign Minister (Heiko Maas, SPD), is having meetings with the Turks....to gain knowledge over the names and their past crimes.
What the Germans want is some type of crime list (proof) of past war crimes, and they'd immediately lock the guy up and call for some international committee to stage a war crimes situation.
Will the Turks cooperate? It's hard to say. The Turks simply know they are holding these German individuals who were into the ISIS war machine. I don't think they know to what level. Witnesses? Where? Who? Most of the victims probably aren't around to provide answers.
What'll eventually happen? As soon as they arrive on German soil....some type of holding situation will be started, but I expect some legal experts to step in and challenge the holdings in court. This is basically the issue that triggered the US to stage the Gitmo-operation, if you think about implications and where rights can lead you.
Chancellor Merkel in the middle of this? I would suggest that she will have little to nothing to say about this, or issue directives. Even Maas (as Foreign Minister) has limited abilities. It'll end up in the lap of the Germany's Attorney General, and there simply isn't a mechanism to handle this type of mess. There is a law that says you can't leave Germany and go participate in some civil war.....but upon return....if the court is involved, you are simply talking about a sentence of two to three years, and then you get released.
In blunt terms, you need a war crimes commission to occur, and the EU simply isn't in some role to do this.
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