Counter terrorism police have detained a London woman in Turkey after fears she was planning to travel to Syria with her four children.
The family went missing from their Waltham Forest home last week and were believed to have left via London City Airport.
Turkish authorities today confirmed they had detained the woman, 33, along with her four children.
In a statement released this afternoon, Commander Richard Walton, from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said: "I'd like to thank the public and media for their help and support with our appeal to locate this mother and her four young children over the weekend.
"We had very real concerns that she may have been planning to travel with her children to Syria and she has now been detained with the children in Turkey.
"I would also like to thank our police counterparts in the Netherlands and Turkey, with whom we continue to have excellent working relationships."
