Turkey turned over one of the Brussels attack terrorists to the Netherlands in 2015, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced today.

According to him, the Turkish police arrested one of the Brussels attack terrorists, El Bakraoui, in Antep city and sent him to the Netherlands at his own request, Turkey’s Milliyet newspaper reports.

The Turkish President insisted that the Dutch and Belgian authorities had been informed of his being a terrorist, but, despite this, El Bakraoui was set free in Europe.