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2022-02-06 Home Front: WoT
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Kansas 'ISIS mom' radicalized before leaving U.S., kidnapped kids from her first marriage
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Yesterday denied bail, today the backstory, including the two children who escaped and made their way back to America. [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, has been accused of trying to ransom her own children back to their father in Kansas after she fled with them to the Middle East, DailyMail.com can reveal. Her former sister-in-law, Amy Fluke, 49, has revealed the mom began sending her ex-husband emails and notes demanding more than $6,000 for the return of their two kids, shortly after moving abroad.
'The first month they were away in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
 ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
we could still call and talk to Gabe and Alaina, but after that we lost all contact. And that broke my brother,' Amy told DailyMail.com.
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'That's when the really weird stuff started happening. It started with ransom notes.
'We would get them by mail or emails. They were telling him he could have the kids back for a certain amount of money. Sometimes it was $5,000 or $6,000, and it started being more and more. I don't remember the highest amount.
'But we wanted to get the children back legally, so he didn't pay any ransom. We were trying to fight for the opportunity to get them back to the United States to have a custody hearing, and that's when we lost all contact with the children for about five or six years,' she added.
It was not clear whether any ransom money would have been diverted to ISIS.
DailyMail.com also found that Fluke-Ekren - who is now charged with supporting a terrorist organization - faked her own death while living in Syria and taunted her ex husband that his daughter, Alaina, was dead.
Relatives revealed Gabriel managed to escape back to the US when he was 17 and he has made a new life for himself, but Alaina's whereabouts remain unknown and she could still be in Syria.
James Fluke spoke exclusively to DailyMail.com following his ex-wife's court appearance Monday where she was charged with being a member of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
and leading an all-female battalion armed with AK-47 assault rifles.
'I hope they lock her up and throw away the key,' he said, speaking at his modest home in a quiet corner of Topeka, Kansas. 'She kidnapped my kids for ten years. She's manipulative. She always has been. She's always wanted the spotlight. There is no way to adequately describe how manipulative she is.'
Asked about his reaction to the terrorist accusations against her, Fluke — who fits tires and mufflers for Midas — added: 'I can't even wrap my head around it. I hope she gets what she deserves. I hope it's done right.'
A criminal complaint was filed under seal against Fluke-Ekren in 2019, however, she was whisked back to the United States from Syria to face charges on January 31.
Other members of her former family in Topeka exclusively revealed to DailyMail.com that the nature-loving Fluke-Ekren grew up as Allison Brooks on an isolated farm in Overbrook, Kansas, which could only be accessed through dirt roads.
She and Fluke had two children, Gabriel, now 25, and Alaina, who would be 24 if she is still alive. The now alleged terrorist became pregnant with Gabriel at 17 when she was a student at Topeka Collegiate School and dropped out of high school.
But Fluke worked two jobs — washing cars by day and chauffeuring for a casino at night — so she could get her GED and later attend the University of Kansas — where she began a relationship with Volkan Ekren, a member of a powerful family in Turkey. It was then that she started becoming very critical of America to some members of her family in Topeka, relatives told DailyMail.com. She also dropped out of college and is not a qualified teacher as has been reported.
James and Allison eventually divorced, sparking a bitter custody battle. She then married Ekren and took the children to Turkey with him without her ex's permission.
A Fluke family member who did not want to be identified told DailyMail.com: 'James got Gabe back when he was around 17 after he literally escaped. But Alaina, his biological daughter, she never came back.
'He still doesn't know where she is. He believes there comes a time when he just cannot dwell on that. He doesn't know if Alaina is or was in Syria, somewhere else in the Middle East, or even if she is still alive. He has no idea. He tries not to think about it.'
In 2008, Fluke-Ekren left Turkey and moved to Cairo, Egypt with her new husband and taught children there. She traveled frequently between Egypt and the US for the next three years but had not been in the States since 2011, according to court documents. She is believed to have moved to Syria around 2012.
She is believed to have had at least three more children, according to her family blog 4KansasKids, where she had been documenting the family's life overseas until 2010. Through Volkan Ekren, Fluke-Ekren had a second daughter named Leyla, who is now living safely in the United States, having escaped the Islamic radicalism with Gabriel.
'James takes care of her now as well. He is incredibly protective of these now adult children and is very angry about what she put them through,' said the family member.
Amy Fluke branded her former sister-in-law a 'fantasist', describing how her character changed after marrying James Fluke.
'When we first met her she was sweet, really nice, seemed perfectly sane,' she said.
'And it was shortly after she got pregnant with Gabriel that everything went south and changed. Mood swings, really protective of what my brother could and couldn't do all of a sudden. She was very weird about, "where have you been," "what have you been doing?"
'It was right then, that's when the lies started. She would lie to people about her past. I read one article that stated she had a master's degree in teaching, which she does not.'
Amy Fluke, who lives close to her brother, continued: 'She vanished for days at a time, and would say that she needed time with her friends.
'At the time we thought that's weird and the marriage was kind of rocky, but later on we found out that's when she was meeting people who were interested in radical Islamic fundamentalism.
'She mentioned that she wanted to become Moslem. She would talk a lot about how she did not enjoy the United States anymore and was very critical of it.
'She said things in the Middle East were easier and much better, that women had a certain place in life and that that's how she was going to raise Gabe and Alaina. She started wearing the headdress and made Alaina do the same. There is nothing wrong with that, of course, but it just seems more relevant now.'
While abroad, Gabriel and Alaina made secret and hurried phone calls to Amy and James in later years to reassure them, but did not reveal where they were. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
those calls also eventually stopped. The son suddenly and mysteriously turned up in New York when he was 17, with Leyla. He gave little away about his life, or how he managed to get out.
'At first he wouldn't talk at all. And he is still not going to talk a lot about his mom in his life,' Amy said.
'But every once in a while a little snippet comes out — and that's when we learned that she dragged them pretty much all over the Mideast, and from husband to husband.
'She hasn't been in contact with us for a very long time. Gabriel now has a house, he has a job and just seeks to have a quiet life. Gabe got back to the U.S. on his own. I have no idea how he broke free. He won't talk about it.
'One day, he was in New York and he called his dad and said, "can you pick me up, I'm getting out." And James got in a car the next day and drove all the way to New York. The last time he had seen Gabriel was when he was eight.'
Fluke-Ekren's parents Alice Brooks, 77, and Mark Brooks, 76 - who split 20 years ago - along with Gabriel and Leyla, requested the alleged terrorist be banned from contacting them through an attorney at Monday's hearing. A close friend of the Brookses told DailyMail.com in Topeka: 'Mark and Alice hadn't seen or had contact with Allison for years.
'They knew she had gone off the page and wasn't a good American. Perhaps I shouldn't say that last bit, but that's how it appears. They were a beautiful family — yet she faked her death and put them through that.'
The friend, who did not want to be named, added: 'I knew her when she was a little girl and she was delightful. It is shocking what has happened. Absolutely heart breaking.
'And that is how the family are feeling. They don't want anything to do with her.'
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