PARIS (Reuters) - A man suspected of being one of the main recruiters of French jihadists for Islamic State was placed in the hands of judicial authorities in Paris on Thursday after his arrest in Turkey last month, France's interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
Islamic State militants have seized a third of Syria - where they are fighting President Bashar al-Assad's forces - and, over the last four months, have also taken and held a third of Iraq.
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