Istanbul Police Detain 36 Suspected Daesh Militants
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Turkey's official news agency says Istanbul police have detained 36 people as alleged members of the Daesh (also known as ISIL or ISIS) group.
The Anadolu news agency reported Saturday that anti-terror police conducted simultaneous raids at 15 different addresses in Istanbul to apprehend five suspects who allegedly had travelled to Iraq and Syria for Daesh, AP reported.
The news agency says 31 of the people detained are foreigners. There was no information on their nationalities.
Several deadly attacks in Turkey that killed more than 300 people since 2015 have been blamed on ISIL.
Along with combatting the extremist group's cells inside its borders, Turkey launched a military operation in northern Syria in August 2016 to clear the border zone of ISIL members after a suicide bomb ripped through a street wedding in Turkey's Gaziantep province.
