Lost Austrian girls with terrorist groups in Syria

Sources at the Austrian Ministry of Interior Affairs said that the two Austrian girls who were missed earlier have joined the terrorist groups in Syria through Turkey. The Austrian newspaper "Die Presse" quoted a spokesman for the Austrian Interior Ministry as saying that the Turkish intelligence agency told the Austrian security authorities that the two girls joined the terrorist organization of the "Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant", adding that the girls had lift Vienna to Ankara before heading to Adana and from there entered Syria, Syrian Arab News Agency reported. The spokesman said that the girls, 16 and 17 years old, sent hand-written messages to their parents saying that they will go to Syria for "Jihad", adding that the parents of the girls told the Austrian counter-terrorism bureau that they have information suggesting that the girls were abducted in Turkey and forced to join the terrorist groups in Syria. On 15 April, the Austrian police said that two Austrian teenagers, who descend from families that had immigrated from Bosnia, travelled to the Turkish city of Adana before the police lost them there. Earlier, liberal Austrian Muslims launched an initiative in which they called upon the European governments to monitor all extremists and extremist organizations in Europe, adding that the terrorist groups in Syria are receiving all forms of support from the West and Persian Gulf Arab countries. They stressed that there are organizations in Europe that are recruiting extremists to fight in Syria with clear European and Persian Gulf Arab states' support.