The father of the first British woman to die fighting against IS in Syria is campaigning to bring his daughter's remains back to the UK.
Anna Campbell, 26, was volunteering with the Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) – the all-female brigade of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) – in the besieged city of Afrin when she died in March 2018.
She had travelled to Syria via Lebanon in 2017 and was hit by what is thought to be Turkish airstrikes.
Her death made her the eighth British citizen to die in the country, but the first woman.
Dirk Campbell, from Lewes in East Sussex, has launched a legal campaign to bring her body home from the now-Turkish controlled area.
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He said his repeated appeals to both the British and Turkish governments to repatriate Ms Campbell's remains have been so far unsuccessful – despite the exact location of her body being known.
Mr Campbell said: "I have not even been accorded the courtesy of a reply to my repeated request to the Turkish embassy in London.
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"My meetings with the Foreign Office have proved fruitless despite promises to 'do our best'. My MP has done nothing to help. I have been left with no option but to seek legal action.
"Anna gave her life fighting for freedom and the rights and lives of others. It is an embarrassment to the UK and a disgrace and shame on Turkey that her body has been left to rot in the rubble of a ruined city."
