Dutch rescues daughter from from Islamic State in Syria

 Written by : Mohamed Abdel Fattah

Nov 19,2014

A Dutch mother has returned to the Netherlands with her daughter after going to Syria to bring her back from the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa.

The mother, identified only as Monique, she went to ISIS-controlled Raqqa, found her daughter and brought her safely to Turkey, inspite Dutch police warned her not to go.

The daughter, Aicha, ran away from home in February aged 18, and married Omar Yilmaz, a Dutch-Turkish jihadist who had once been in the Dutch military.

Monique traveled to Syria in October to try and rescue her daughter, but it was in vain. Once Monique returned to the Netherlands, she received a “cry for help” from her daughter. “She wants to come home, but can not leave Raqqa without help”, says lawyer Landerloo.

Monique asked Maastricht police to try and help in her quest to bring her daughter back to the Netherlands. However, they proved to be of little assistance, saying merely that it was too dangerous to travel to Syria and that helping jihadists was a punishable offense.

Monique travelled to Syria against the advice of Dutch police, she made her way through Turkey and into the ISIS stronghold, where she met her daughter after coordinating a rendezvous through Facebook.

Aicha's passport was seized but she used her identity card instead, accordeing to the reports. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Turkey is now mediating their return home and expects that the two will be back in the Netherlands within the week.

Sources

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30111040
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/dutch-mother-travels-syria-rescue-daughter-isis-stronghold-raqqa-1475641
http://www.nltimes.nl/2014/11/18/mom-rescues-daughter-isis-syria/

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