Turkish police arrested 115 suspected Islamic State (ISIS) members in a series of raids across the country. It is believed the fear group was planning on conducting terror attacks targeting non-Muslims to coincide with Christmas and New Year’s events.
The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office said that it had learned of an ISIS call to motion. As a result the prosecutor’s office issued 137 arrest warrants, resulting in 115 being taken into custody. The police individually raided 124 locations.
As well as apprehending suspects, the police also found guns, ammunition and organisational documents.
ISIS has long operated a type of hybrid model of terror attacks. While sometimes it plans and directs attacks in the best way al-Qaeda would – because it did with the 2015 Bataclan massacre in Paris – other times it simply provides the inspiration or ideological cover for so-called lone wolf attacks, just like the 2017 Westminster Bridge attack.
Following the collapse of the ISIS caliphate, many suspected members are believed to have made their solution to Turkey, which shares a 559-mile border with Syria.
In a separate operation, Turkish intelligence operatives captured Mehmet Goren near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Goren, a Turk, is accused of getting been an administrator for ISIS chargeable for planning suicide attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, and Europe. He can be believed to have worked with Ozgur Altun, who was previously captured by Turkey for his role in transferring ISIS members from Turkey to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border regions.
Turkey has been the victim of a lot of terror attacks claimed by ISIS. Since 2014 there have been at the least 20 incidents either claimed by ISIS or suspected to be their work, starting from minor border clashes to incidents just like the 2015 Ankara suicide bombings, wherein 109 people were killed.
From 2017 to 2024 there have been only a few incidents, due mainly to successful motion by the Turkish security services, who’ve arrested 1000’s and thwarted plots, including planned attacks on churches and synagogues in 2023.
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