ISTANBUL, July 18: Turkey has arrested 153 presumed members of the Islamic State group (IS) in nationwide raids, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Friday.
The arrests took place from Izmir and Mugla in the west and southwest, to Hatay and Mardin in the southeast and Samsun on the northern Black Sea coast.
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"In the course of operations in 28 provinces over the past two weeks, our military police have detained 153 presumed members of the terrorist organisation" IS, Yerlikaya said on X.
The suspects "have provided funds to affiliated groups" and are accused of "propaganda that benefits a terrorist organisation," he said.
Yerlikaya said the police had acted on information from Turkish intelligence services and cooperation from authorities abroad.
Turkey shares an 800-kilometre (500-mile) border with Syria, where the IS claimed responsibility in late May for an attack on the new government forces in the south of the country.
