Travel route of Islamic State suspects to Syria disclosed

The travel route of three female Daesh suspects, who are on Interpol’s Most Wanted list and were captured in Turkey in January, has been revealed following their hearings.

Sought with a red notice, Houda Z., along with two other women, Malika B. and Fatıha T., who were sought under blue notices, were arrested in January by Turkish security forces in a counterterrorism operation.

While the three women initially were arrested and sent to jail on charges of being members of a terrorist organization, they were released under judicial control after their first hearing.

The judicial process revealed the route the three women followed to reach Syria. Houda Z. left Paris with her husband and two children to go to Syria by truck. The family traveled from Italy to Greece by ship and continued from Greece to Turkey via motorway, before finally entering Syria.

Fatıha T. came to Istanbul from Saudi Arabia, and then traveled to Turkey’s southern border province of Şanlıurfa and eventually into Syria.

During the hearing, Houda Z. denied the accusations, saying she has no relation to the Daesh terrorist organization. “We lived in Syria with our husband. He did not say anything about Daesh. After he was killed, I came to Turkey with the help of smugglers,” she said.

Source: Daily Sabah