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Turkey has arrested 90 people with suspected links to the Islamic State jihadist group, the interior ministry said Monday, two weeks after a deadly shootout outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul.
A day after the attack on April 7, a nationwide sweep against “the terrorist organisation Daesh,” another name for the Islamic State group, resulted in the detention of 198 individuals.
According to the interior ministry, “members of the terrorist organisation,… people… involved in its financing… and suspects disseminating propaganda” are among the 90 suspects detained in 24 of Turkey’s 81 provinces.
Authorities have not officially connected the arrests to the shootout outside the Israeli consulate, in which two police officers were wounded.
One of the three gunmen, who was killed by police, was linked “to a terrorist organisation that instrumentalises religion,” authorities said, without naming IS.
In late December, three Turkish police officers were killed during an anti-IS operation in the northwestern province of Yalova. Six suspects, all Turkish nationals, were also shot dead in clashes that lasted several hours.
