Turkey arrests 161 Islamic State group suspects in a week

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Turkish constabulary person arrested 161 suspected members of the Islamic State radical implicit the past week, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Friday.

The suspects were progressive within the radical and providing fiscal support, helium added successful a station connected X. They were detained successful 38 of Turkey’s 81 provinces, including the superior Ankara and largest metropolis Istanbul.

Yerlikaya said unlicensed firearms, IS documents and integer materials were seized successful the raids.

IS has carried retired galore attacks connected Turkey implicit the past decade, including a treble bombing astatine a governmental rally successful 2015 that killed much than 100 successful the country’s deadliest terror attack. [AP]