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Türkiye Says Arrests 153 Suspected ISIS Members, Associates

Türkiye Says Arrests 153 Suspected ISIS Members, Associates

Asharq Al-Awsat7 days ago
Türkiye has arrested 153 presumed members of ISIS in nationwide raids, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Friday.
The arrests took place from Izmir and Mugla in the west and southwest, to Hatay and Mardin in the southeast and Samsun on the northern Black Sea coast.
"In the course of operations in 28 provinces over the past two weeks, our military police have detained 153 presumed members of the terrorist organization" ISIS, Yerlikaya said on X.
The suspects "have provided funds to affiliated groups" and are accused of "propaganda that benefits a terrorist organization," he said, according to AFP.
Yerlikaya said the police had acted on information from Turkish intelligence services and cooperation from authorities abroad.
Türkiye shares an 800-kilometer (500-mile) border with Syria, where ISIS claimed responsibility in late May for an attack on the new government forces in the south of the country.
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