Ministry of the Interior, large-scale sweep and arrest operation in 7 states across the country
It began after the January 28 shooting at a Christian cathedral in Istanbul.
Interior Minister Turkiye announced on the 3rd (local time) that the police recently conducted a large-scale crackdown across seven provinces in the country and arrested 34 foreign suspects linked to the Islamic State (IS), an extremist Islamic terrorist group. .
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on social media
The provinces in the operational area include Istanbul, Kocaeli, Yalova, Kayseri, Bursa, Dzhe, and Yozgat provinces.
Those arrested are suspected of participating in terrorist operations with the IS terrorist organization.
This operation began on Sunday, the 28th of last month, when two gunmen, one from Tajikistan and one from Russia, entered the Santa Maria Christian Church in the Sariyer district of downtown Istanbul and opened fire on worshiping worshipers. This is after.
The Turkiye Interior Ministry issued a statement the next day, saying that the two foreign shooters had been identified as IS members.
Turkiye defined IS as a terrorist group in 2013. Since then, this group has carried out numerous terrorist attacks within Türkiye, and as the number of victims increases, Türkiye authorities have also continued the fight to eradicate IS on a large scale.
In March of last year, Türkiye Intelligence Service and security forces carried out a large-scale crackdown in the southeastern province of Mersin and captured a key IS official in charge of finance.
The border with Syria in southern Turkiye has been a major gateway for numerous Syrian refugees and foreign fighters, including ISIS, since the civil war began in Syria in 2011.
Source: Donga
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