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Turkey arrested over 100 suspected members of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) this week, authorities said Friday, the latest mass detention targeting the terrorist organization, Agence France-Presse reported.
The country has been hit by several major attacks claimed by ISIL, including a 2017 nightclub shooting that killed dozens of people.
The fresh raids took place across the country, including in the capital of Ankara and Turkey’s largest city of İstanbul, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya tweeted.
The arrest of 119 people this week follows other mass detentions, including 99 announced in early August.
Since the 2019 collapse of the self-proclaimed “caliphate,” some suspected ISIL members have settled in Turkey.
Turkish authorities said that since June 2023 more than 3,600 people with suspected ties to the jihadist group have been arrested.
Two of the assailants who massacred 145 people at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow last March, an attack for which ISIL claimed responsibility, had spent several weeks in Turkey before heading to Russia, according to local authorities.