Highlights: Türkiye: 147 people suspected of belonging to the jihadist group IS arrested. Follows around forty other arrests in recent days of suspected members of the terrorist organization, which claimed responsibility for last Friday's attack in Moscow. Two of the suspects in this attack had also passed through Turkey. Police operations against the Islamic State group are frequent in Turkey, a country neighboring Syria and Iraq, reports RFI correspondent in Istanbul, Anne Andlauer. In the last ten months alone, authorities say they have arrested more than 2,900 people.

New anti-terrorist operation in Türkiye. This Tuesday, March 26, authorities arrested 147 people suspected of belonging to the Islamic State group. A dragnet that follows around forty others…

Türkiye: 147 people suspected of belonging to the jihadist group IS arrested

New anti-terrorist operation in Türkiye. This Tuesday, March 26, authorities arrested 147 people suspected of belonging to the Islamic State group. A dragnet which follows around forty other arrests in recent days of suspected members of the terrorist organization, which claimed responsibility for last Friday's attack in Moscow. Two of the suspects in this attack had also passed through Turkey.

Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya in Istanbul on January 28, 2024. AFP - OZAN KOSE

By: RFI with AFP

In a very detailed message published on social networks, the Ministry of the Interior, Ali Yerlikaya, announced that

operations entitled “Bozdoğan-17” had been carried out against

the Islamist organization IS.

3️⃣0️⃣ ilde DEAŞ Terör Örgütüne yönelik eş zamanlı olarak gerçekleştirilen “BOZDOĞAN-17” operasyonlarında 1️⃣4️⃣7️⃣ şüpheli yakalandı❗

⚠️1 Haziran 2023-25 March 2024 will be released by DEAŞ Terör Örgütüne yönelik toplam 1️⃣.3⃣2⃣9⃣ operasyon düzenlendi.

📌Operasyonlarda 2️⃣ bin 9️⃣1️⃣9️⃣… pic.twitter.com/j8yCn7JWSy

— Ali Yerlikaya (@AliYerlikaya) March 26, 2024

Police operations against the Islamic State group are frequent in

Turkey

, a country neighboring Syria and Iraq, reports RFI correspondent in Istanbul,

Anne Andlauer

. The terrorist organization has long had numerous cells throughout Turkey. In the last ten months alone, authorities say they have arrested more than 2,900 people suspected of being linked to the jihadist group.

However, the raids seem to have gained momentum after the Moscow attack. Since Sunday, Turkish police have arrested 187 people. Ankara has not publicly made the link with this attack, but security sources have confirmed that two of the suspects in the attack in Russia had stayed several weeks in Turkey, in Istanbul, before leaving by plane on March 2. Turkish officials argue that these men were not the subject of an arrest warrant.

Criticized in the first years of the war in Syria for having turned a blind eye to the passage through its territory of foreign fighters who left to swell the ranks of Daesh, Turkey also recalls that for ten years it has been one of the main targets of the group terrorist, particularly its branch in Central Asia, the Islamic State in Khorasan.

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Türkiye: 147 people suspected of belonging to the jihadist group IS arrested

Türkiye: 147 people suspected of belonging to the jihadist group IS arrested

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