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Turkey on Monday said it had arrested 90 people with suspected links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), two weeks after a deadly shootout outside the Israeli Consulate General in İstanbul.
A total of 198 people were detained a day after the April 7 attack in a nationwide sweep of ISIL.
“The 90 other suspects, arrested in 24 of Turkey’s 81 provinces, include members of the terrorist organization, individuals involved in its financing and those accused of disseminating propaganda,” the Interior Ministry said.
Authorities have not officially connected these arrests to the shootout outside the Israeli consulate in which two police officers were wounded.
One of the three gunmen who was killed by the police was linked “to a terrorist organization that exploits religion,” Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi said, without naming ISIL.
At the end of December, three Turkish police officers were killed during an anti-ISIL operation in the northwestern province of Yalova.
Six suspects, all Turkish nationals, were also shot dead in clashes that lasted several hours.
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