ISTANBUL: Some 115 alleged members of the Daesh group suspected of planning attacks during the end of year holidays have been arrested in Turkiye, Istanbul’s prosecutor general said Thursday.
“Following intelligence indicating that the Daesh terrorist organization was planning attacks during Christmas and New Year celebrations,” the prosecutor’s office ordered the detention of 137 people, 115 of whom have been arrested, the Istanbul prosecutor general’s office said in a statement.
Turkiye shares a 900-kilometer (559-mile) border with Syria, where militants groups are still active and where the IS was accused of an attack in mid-December that killed two US soldiers and one civilian.