ISTANBUL
\nTurkiye on Wednesday detained another 125 Daesh group suspects in a string of nationwide raids, a minister said, following warnings that Daesh militants were planning attacks over the holidays.The latest arrests raised to nearly 600 the total number detained over the past week.
\n\u201cWe captured 125 Daesh suspects in simultaneous operations carried out in 25 provinces this morning,\u201d Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya wrote on X.
\nOn Christmas Day, the security forces arrested 115 Daesh suspects following intelligence warning that the extremist group was \u201cplaning attacks during Christmas and New Year celebrations,\u201d the Istanbul\u2019s prosecutor\u2019s office said.
\nDuring another nationwide arrest operation on Monday, Daesh militants opened fire on police in the northwestern coastal town of Yalova, killing three officers and wounding nine others, the interior minister said.
\nSix Daesh militants were also killed in the hours-long gunbattle in Yalova, which lies on the shores of the Sea of Marmara about 90 kilometers (55 miles) southeast of Istanbul.
\nA day later, another 357 suspects with ties to Daesh were arrested in 21 different provinces, the minister said. The anti-Daesh raids began just days after Turkiye\u2019s intelligence agency captured a Turkish national who holds a senior role within IS in a raid on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, state news agency Anadolu reported on December 22.
\nThe suspect, Mehmet Goren, had allegedly been tasked with organizing suicide attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkiye and Europe. In the early hours of January 1, 2017, Daesh militants staged a deadly New Year attack on a nightclub in Istanbul that left 39 people dead, mostly foreigners.
\nThe Uzbek gunman, who survived, was sentenced to 40 life sentences. In his post on X, Yerlikaya issued a warning to anyone seeking to attack Turkiye, saying they would \u201cface the might of our state and the unity of our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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