--- description: Hayat Boumeddiene flew from Madrid to Turkey before going to Syria title: Suspected Paris Accomplice Crossed Into Syria, Official Says image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Terrorism](/tag/terrorism/) ## Terrorism Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Suspected Paris Accomplice Crossed Into Syria, Official Says by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 12, 2015 12:44 PM CUT by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 12, 2015 12:44 PM CUT ISTANBUL, Turkey — The suspected accomplice of one of the Islamist militants behind last week’s [attacks in Paris ](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/paris-magazine-attack "undefined")crossed into Syria from Turkey on Thursday, according to Turkey’s foreign minister. Mevlut Cavusoglu told a state-run news agency on Monday that Hayat Boumeddiene flew from Madrid to Turkey on Jan. 2\. She stayed at a Istanbul hotel and then crossed into Syria on the same day her common-law is suspected of killing a policewoman in Paris, Cavusoglu added. “We understand this thanks to telephone recordings,” Cavusoglu told Anadolu Agency. “We provided \[French authorities\] with the information as soon as we got it, without them even asking…” [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/paris-magazine-attack/suspected-paris-accomplice-hayat-boumeddiene-crossed-syria-official-n284296?cid=par-time-article%5F20150112 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3663510/paris-charlie-hebdo-syria-turkey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3663510/paris-charlie-hebdo-syria-turkey/"},"headline":"Suspected Paris Accomplice Crossed Into Syria, Official Says","datePublished":"2015-01-12T12:44:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:29:05.383Z","description":"Hayat Boumeddiene flew from Madrid to Turkey before going to Syria","url":"https://time.com/3663510/paris-charlie-hebdo-syria-turkey/","keywords":["Terrorism"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/terrorism/","name":"Terrorism"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3663510/paris-charlie-hebdo-syria-turkey/","name":"Suspected Paris Accomplice Crossed Into Syria, Official Says"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Know Right Now: Paris Gunmen Killed, Hostages Freed","description":"Watch #knowrightnow to catch up on today's top story.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/WZdnXsGV/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-01-07T16:26:53.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/WZdnXsGV.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3663510/paris-charlie-hebdo-syria-turkey/","duration":"PT1M3S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3663510/paris-charlie-hebdo-syria-turkey/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```