The nine Britons stopped by Turkish police for allegedly trying to cross the border into Syria are to be deported tomorrow, according to Sky News sources.
Waheed Ahmed, son of Rochdale Labour councillor Shakil Ahmed, arrived in Turkey on 30 March, three days after the rest of the group.
The 22-year-old will be sent back to the UK along with four other adults and four children also stopped in Turkey's Hatay province.
Police have been searching the house of Waheed's father Shakil, who represents the Kingsway ward on Rochdale Borough Council.
He said the group were on holiday but he had thought his son was on a work placement in Birmingham.
"My son is a good Muslim and his loyalties belong to Britain, so I don't understand what he's doing there. If I thought for a second that he was in danger of being radicalised, I would have reported him to the authorities.
"I just want to speak to my son and get him home as soon as possible so I can find out what's going on."
Neighbour Mohammed Sharif said he "never had suspicion about the family" and remembered Waheed as a "nice quiet young lad" who would "speak to you with respect".
Greater Manchester Police says the group includes two women aged 47 and 22, three men aged 24, 22 and 21, along with children aged one, three, eight and 11.
Officers are trying to establish their reason for travelling to the Syrian border.
Assistant Chief Constable Ian Wiggett said: "What is obviously concerning is why a family were seemingly attempting to take very young and vulnerable children into a war zone.
"Such a volatile and dangerous environment is no place for them whatsoever."
The group is understood to have been kept in a police station in Turkey on Thursday night and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was unable to confirm when they were expected back in the UK.
Usman Nawaz, who went to the same school as Waheed Ahmed in Rochdale, said mosques and his school in Rochdale were not to blame for Waheed's actions.
The 25-year-old, a former member of the Young Muslims' Advisory Group and mentor to young Muslims through Rochdale's Youth Council, said: "For some it's an adventure but for some they think that they are doing something noble.
"The ideology which is peddled, this very hardcore understanding of the faith, one which is state sponsored by Saudi Arabia, that has to be challenged and it's quite difficult to challenge it in a coherent manner when the Saudi ideology has the backing of petrodollars."
Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, said news of the group's actions was "deeply worrying", adding: "The idea you can take young children into a war zone is despicable and we condemn those adults who have done this."
The Metropolitan Police believe around 600 Britons have travelled to Syria and Iraq since the conflict began, while around half are believed to have returned to the UK.
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