The family of a pregnant teenager who killed a police officer in a suicide bomb attack have described her as a normal teenager who wore mini-skirts and make-up.
Diana Ramazanova, from Russia's Muslim region of Dagestan, detonated grenades in front of the Istanbul tourism police station in Turkey last week.
The 18-year-old is understood to have been the widow of an ISIS fighter killed six weeks ago in Syria.
Family say the teen had totally changed after meeting Abu Aluevitsj Edelbijev online.
She married the Norwegian citizen of Chechen origin, in a religious ceremony last year, either in Istanbul or in Syria, according to Turkish media.
Her uncle, Magomed Ramazanov said she had previously not shown an interest in Islam and her actions were totally out of character.
He said: “Before leaving for Turkey, she was not deeply religious.
“On the contrary, she was even depraved. In Moscow, Diana worked in the restaurant at the Kursk station. I always scolded her for wearing short skirts.”
News site lifenews.ru also quoted a Moscow teacher as saying: “I even rebuked her for wearing unsuitable clothes at school.”
Pictures have emerged of Ramazanova before she was married, showing a normal teenager who took good care of her appearance.
But she has now been dubbed a black widow - the label given to female suicide bombers from the Caucasus who carried out attacks after their husbands were killed by Russian security forces.
Following the attack her mother Raizanat recognised pictures of her daughter and gave a blood sample for a DNA test.
It is believed she entered Turkey on a tourist visa in May 2014, but her husband may have entered the country illegally.
From their, the pair crossed the border from Turkey into Syria in July to join IS fighters.
He reportedly took the name of Idris while she became known as Sumeyra.
After her new husband was killed in December, she went back to Turkey and stayed for 11 days at the Kadikoy Bade Hotel.
The first grenade failed to explode and she was shot as she detonated the second, which killed her and a police officer. Another was injured.
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