Reports: Female accomplice in French attacks may have traveled through Turkey to Syria

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last updated 11 January 2015

Hayat Boumeddiene, the common-law wife of a gunman who took a Paris kosher supermarket hostage on Friday, may now be in Syria, The Associated Press reports.

A Turkish official says authorities believe Boumeddiene flew to Istanbul on Jan. 2, then traveled onward into Syria on Jan. 4.

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Sarah Eberspacher is an associate editor at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked as a sports reporter at The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus and The Arizona Republic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

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