The daughter of Marleen (52) WAS IN ISTANBUL at the TIME of the ATTACK

Marleen was Tuesday evening just to work all of a sudden when she was called by her daughter Julia, who together with her girlfriend for six weeks to Indonesia had left. "I had no news yet seen that evening, but at the moment I heard my daughter talk, I knew immediately that something was wrong ..."

RACING FOR THEIR LIVES
Julia and her friend were Danique that fateful Tuesday departed from Rotterdam. The two friends had to wait in Istanbul fourteen hours on their flight to Jakarta. They had just landed or some terrorists opened fire. Julia and Danique ran for their lives. "Startled, Julia told what had just happened, and how to shoot terrorists and blew himself began it. She was afraid, very afraid. I heard her voice."

What was meant as a call to reassure her mother, gets a very different turn when the terrorists opened fire again. "Julia thought it was over, but during our conversation I suddenly heard shots again." Mom, I gotta run. I love you, "is the last thing she said."

STOCKROOM
Despite the shots Marleen remained calm. "Of course scare you, but I knew it the first time had run for their lives, so I had every confidence that they together now would find a safe place. What do you need else? More you from the Netherlands that currently not do that. "

After half an hour Marleen again receives message from her daughter: they are hidden in the warehouse. "What I felt at that time the worst was the enormous fear that was my daughter. She was so terrified. It gave me such a feeling of helplessness that I could not protect my daughter."

Impotency
"At that moment I suddenly realized that every parent mothers in war zones suffer daily with that powerlessness. Wants to protect her child from violence, fear and sadness. Only you realize when you experience something like that what it really means. For me as a mother, but also for all those other mothers if that fails. "

When Juliet announced that she spends the night with Danique in a hotel in Istanbul is Marleen somewhat reassured. "They would fly back the next day to the Netherlands to first catch your breath before she left for Jakarta. That was for me a big relief."

EMOTIONS
"After a few days at home explains Julia again completely. I also think that it helped enormously that, at the time when the attack was committed, her emotions have free rein. She's very intense experience, but it may therefore I think also easier to give a place than when she had bottled up everything. "

"All will tell if they have processed it really the time. Of course it's not just something they happened. Those images of people running in panic through each other, terrorists who shoot around and an airport that is completely destroyed. That of course is very intense. it is burned on their retina. "

Despite the attack, the friends leave probably sat back to the airport. "I find it very brave and I would lie if I say that it does not affect me. But you have to how much you want to protect them, release your children. For everything. You have to let them go."

Julia and Danique, has also deterred by terrorist violence. "On one hand they look very reluctant to go back, on the other hand they have saved so long to make this trip. You can not let it rule your life also by fear. Then you nothing."

"I also think it is good for the processing to correct to go back again to the place where it all happened. I'm proud of the girls, and I'm sure they're going to make it together. You can then intense enjoy that dream trip. "

By Telegraph editorial / Female / ELINE DOLDERSUM (journalist) Photo: Telegraph