ISTANBUL: Turkiye on Wednesday detained another 125 Daesh group suspects in a string of nationwide raids, a minister said, following warnings that Daesh militants were planning attacks over the holidays.
The latest arrests raised to nearly 600 the total number detained over the past week.
“We captured 125 Daesh suspects in simultaneous operations carried out in 25 provinces this morning,” Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya wrote on X.
On Christmas Day, the security forces arrested 115 Daesh suspects following intelligence warning that the extremist group was “planing attacks during Christmas and New Year celebrations,” the Istanbul’s prosecutor’s office said.
During another nationwide arrest operation on Monday, Daesh militants opened fire on police in the northwestern coastal town of Yalova, killing three officers and wounding nine others, the interior minister said.
