ISTANBUL: Turkish interior minister on Friday said that 99 suspected members of terrorist group Daesh also known as ISIS had been detained in recent raids across the country.
The arrests were made mainly in Izmir and Ankara in west and, as well as in the center, east and south of said Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya posted on X. “99 suspects have been arrested in the GURZ-4 operations over the past three days,” Yerlikaya said. “We will not tolerate any terrorist,” he added.
Turkish authorities have made several arrests of Daesh members in recent years, most recently a of 147 people announced in March this year.
After those arrests, Yerlikaya said police had detained a total of 2,919 people suspected of having links to the terrorist group.
According to local authorities two of the assailants who killed 145 people at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow last March, an attack for which Daesh claimed responsibility, had spent several weeks in Turkiye before heading to Russia.
