Hayat Boumeddiene entered Turkey on January 2, a Turkish prime ministry source told CNN Saturday. Turkish police have tracked her movements, according to the source - CNN

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France: Heartbreak as deadly siege ends, search for suspect continues - CNN 3:45am

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France: Heartbreak as deadly siege ends, search for suspect continues - CNN

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• Source: Terror sleeper cells activated over the last 24 hours in France
• Source: Hayat Boumeddiene entered Turkey on January 2
• France's security level will remain high, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says

Ahmedy Coulibaly, a suspect killed Friday during a deadly kosher market hostage siege, had made several phone calls about targeting police officers in France, according to the source.

The alert came amid word that the lone remaining suspect wanted in connection with a terrorism spree -- HayatBoumeddiene -- entered Turkey on January 2, a Turkish prime ministry source told CNN Saturday.

Turkish police have tracked her movements, according to the source

Boumeddiene is believed to have left for Turkey "of course to reach Syria" at the beginning of the year, according to a French source close to the nation's security services.

That means Boumeddiene may not have been in France at the time of Thursday's deadly shooting of a policewoman in Paris, as authorities originally believed. Authorities offered no immediate explanation of the discrepancy, but have said she is wanted in connection with a terrorist attack.

A flurry of developments Saturday included claims linking one of the Charlie Hebdo attackers with the so-called underwear bomber, who sought to bring down a plane over Detroit in 2009.

The connection has not been confirmed by officials, and French investigators are still trying to piece together the web of connections between three suspects killed Friday as two sieges came to a bloody end.

The country, meanwhile, continues to cope with three days of terror that left 17 people dead; hundreds gathered on the streets for vigils Saturday and hundreds of thousands were expected at massive rallies Sunday, along with heads of state and other dignitaries.

The suspects killed were brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, authors of Wednesday's deadly attack on the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo; and Coulibaly, who was suspected in the death of a French policewoman Thursday and the shootings and hostage-taking at a kosher supermarket Friday.

Investigators in France and the United States have been looking for evidence tying the Kouachi brothers to associates in terror networks such as al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate and ISIS. 

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