Hawzah News Agency - (Kilis - Turkey) - Turkish authorities have detained at least three French women on suspicion of Daesh links in a region on the Syrian border while they were trying to illegally cross the border.

State news agency Anadolu reported that the women along with nine children were stopped in the border province of Kilis on Thursday. The captured French citizens were sought by Interpol and identified by their initials JC, CA and MD

A security source said that JC referred to Jennifer Clain is closely linked to Daesh masterminds, who claimed responsibility for the assaults that hit the Bataclan nightclub and other Paris locations in November 2015. She is married to Kevin Gonot, a French citizen sentenced to death in Iraq last May for his role in Daesh.

Nearly 120 people were killed on November 13, 2015 after being held hostage by gunmen at the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris. Scores of people were reportedly killed in other attacks across Paris.

At least a dozen foreign members of Daesh have recently been arrested by Turkish forces and transferred to immigration authorities, awaiting expulsion from Turkey.

In the first years after the Syrian conflict began in 2011, Turkey was the main point of entry for foreign fighters seeking to join foreign-backed militant groups. Ankara later tightened border controls and began widespread arrests and extraditions, especially after a spate of devastating Daesh assaults in Turkey.