Damascus: A Dutch mom ignored warnings from officials and single-handedly rescued her 19-year-old daughter from the clutches of ISIS, according to telegraph.co.uk.
The mother, identified only as Monique, chose to take matters into her own hands venturing to the war-torn Syrian city of Raqqa to save her daughter, Aicha.
“Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do,” the brave mother reportedly said. “This is what I think is right.”
According to The Telegraph at 18, Aicha converted to Islam and married a notorious Dutch jihadi named Omar Yilmaz. The young woman had fallen in love with the Islamic State militant and his lifestyle after seeing him interviewed on television. But as time passed, Aicha felt she had made a huge mistake.
“She wanted to go home, but could not leave Raqqa without help,” Monique said.
Authorities in the Netherlands urged the mom to stay home because it was too risky to try and get her back personally.
But once Aicha reached out to her mother last month for help, Monique decided to take off for Syria. Donning a black burka to blend in, she made her way through Turkey and into the ISIS stronghold, where she met her daughter after coordinating a rendezvous through Facebook.
The pair crossed back over the Syrian border into Turkey, but since Aicha did not have a passport, she was arrested along with her mother, 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.
