Three teenagers, at least two of them British, are in custody at a central London police station after being stopped by Turkish authorities as they attempted to travel to Syria, London police said Sunday.
Two were 17-year-old boys from northwest London who had gone missing, a Metropolitan Police news release said.
They were traveling with a 19-year-old, the release said, without providing additional information on the man. Several media outlets, including BBC and Reuters, reported he, too, was British.
British
authorities shared intelligence regarding the 17-year-olds with Turkish
officials on Friday, and that night, the individuals landed in Istanbul
on a flight from Barcelona, Spain, a Turkish official told CNN.
The
teens were stopped, along with a third person who had been regarded as
suspicious by Turkish intelligence working at the airport's risk
analysis center, which monitors risky flights and runs checks on
suspicious passengers trying to enter Turkey.
Turkish
authorities questioned the teens, the Turkish official said, and the
Metropolitan Police said the three arrived back in London shortly before
midnight Saturday and were "arrested on suspicion of preparation of
terrorist acts."
"When we have
intelligence shared with us there is no problem. We stop them and
directly deport them. And of course Turkish intelligence is always on
the lookout as well," the Turkish official said.
Sunday's
news come on the heels of developments in the case of three British
girls who are believed to have entered Syria to join ISIS.
Source-CNN
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