CANBERRA, July 20, 2018 (MENA) - A Turkish court has rejected Australia's request to extradite notorious Islamic State terrorist Neil Prakash in a shock ruling overnight that could see him released from jail unless Turkey decides to prosecute him. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said the Government was disappointed the request for extradition had been rejected, Sky News reported on Friday. The judge made the ruling in the Kilis Criminal Court in southern Turkey, two months after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he expected the self-confessed, Melbourne-born Daesh member to be extradited to face trial in Australia "within months". Prakash has been held in a maximum-security jail in Gaziantep, in southern Turkey, since he was captured in October 2016 trying to sneak across the border from Syria using fake identity papers.