Turkey’s Interior Minister announced Friday that 99 suspected members of ISIS were detained in recent raids across the country. The arrests took place primarily in Ankara and Izmir, as well as in the central, eastern, and southern regions of Turkey, according to Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya’s post on X.
“99 suspects have been arrested in the GURZ-4 operations over the past three days,” Yerlikaya stated. “We will not tolerate any terrorist,” he added.
Turkish authorities have conducted several mass arrests of alleged ISIS members in recent years. The most recent was a roundup of 147 people announced in March. After those arrests, Yerlikaya said police had detained a total of 2,919 people suspected of links to the extremist group.
Two of the assailants involved in the massacre of 145 people at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow last March, an attack claimed by ISIS, had spent several weeks in Turkey before heading to Russia, according to local authorities.
