Dutch police arrested two female citizens who were members of the Islamic State after they were repatriated by Turkey.

"Two women returning from the battlefield of the Islamic State (IS) in Syria have been deported by Turkey and arrested on the evening of November 19 after landing at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam," Dutch prosecutors said. said in a notice. "They were suspected of joining a terrorist organization. The Royal Military Police (guarding the airport and the harbor) arrested these two people and handed them over to the police."

One person, 23, has two small children, 3 and 4 years old, was arrested in Turkey last January. The other, 25, went to the Dutch Embassy in Ankara in October and then requested assistance for returning home. Both are scheduled for trial in a court of first instance in the port city of Rotterdam on November 22.

Earlier in the month, a Dutch court ruled that the government had to "actively" help repatriate the children of women who joined ISIS in Syria but did not need to bring their mothers with them.

The ruling came after 23 female citizens who joined extremist groups last week filed a request asking the Dutch government to bring them and 56 children living in refugee camps in northern Syria home.

Turkey last week began the process of repatriating IS members who are foreign nationals and arrested in the country. Thousands of citizens from Western countries went to Iraq and Syria to join IS in 2014-2018. After IS was defeated, Turkey called on European countries to reclaim their citizens, but many The government refused because of concerns about security and public backlash.