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Turkey arrests 161 Islamic State group suspects in a week
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTurkish police have arrested 161 suspected members of the Islamic State terror group over the last week, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya says.
The suspects were active within the group and provided it with financial support, he added in a post on X. They were detained in 38 of Turkey’s 81 provinces, including the capital, Ankara, and largest city, Istanbul.
Yerlikaya says unlicensed firearms, IS documents and digital materials were seized in the raids.
The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has carried out numerous attacks on Turkey over the past decade, including a double bombing at a political rally in 2015 that killed more than 100 in the country’s deadliest terror attack.
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