article_snippet: School friends Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, left east London London for Turkey last month before crossing into an ISIS-controlled area of Syria.
article_snippet: Amira Abase, 15, (pictured at Gatwick airport) fled to Turkey before crossing the border into Syria where they are believed to have become ISIS jihadi brides .
article_snippet: Tasnime Akunjee, the families' lawyer, who has travelled with the families' to Istanbul, said that all contact with the British authorities and the academy had been 'an attempt to block the families' from finding out more about the circumstances surrounding the teenage girls disappearance'.
article_snippet: Amira's mother Fetia Hussen, told The Times the people of Turkey have been very helpful.
article_snippet: Scotland Yard comes days after a mother fled to Syria with a mother two young children to join the terrorist group.
article_snippet: The 33-year-old travelled from Heathrow to Istanbul on February 14 and then took an internal flight to Gaziantep, a city on Turkey's border with Syria.
article_snippet: a mother is believed to have been helped by Syrian Mohammed al-Rashed, who was arrested last week on suspicion of getting the three east London schoolgirls across Turkey's border with Syria.
article_snippet: On the journey to find the missing girls, the missing girls families went first to the Istanbul coach station where the teenagers waited 18 hours in the biting February chill for the teenagers bus to Turkey's border with Syria.
article_snippet: Emotional: their families went to the Istanbul coach station where the teenagers boarded their families bus to Syria .
article_snippet: The families of three missing London schoolgirls have travelled to Turkey to retrace The families of three missing London schoolgirls steps .
article_snippet: The east London schoolgirls flew to Istanbul from Gatwick with Turkish Airlines and now believed to be in based in the Syrian town of Raqqa – the Islamic State's self-declared capital.
highlights_snippet: Left east London for Turkey then went into ISIS-controlled part of Syria .
  