article_snippet: Kadiza Sultana 16, Amira Abase 15 and Shamima Begum 15 are feared to have travelled to Syria via Turkey .
article_snippet: letters were sent to inform parents parents children had been friends with a pupil who went to Syria weeks earlier and asking for permission to take formal statements.
article_snippet: parents were handed to The girls' on February 5 and found hidden in schoolbooks in parents bedrooms after The girls' left on February 17.
article_snippet: Last month Turkey accused the British authorities of for being too slow to inform it about the three London schoolgirls who travelled to Turkey en route to Syria.
article_snippet: Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc hoped the girls would be found, but that it would be Britain, not Turkey, to blame if the girls were not.
highlights_snippet: Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase fled to Syria .
  
highlights_snippet: The girls - aged 15 and 16 - boarded flight from Gatwick Airport to Istanbul .
  