The Turkish Interior Minister announced the detention of over 150 suspects with links to ISIS.

Turkish law enforcement authorities have detained 153 people on suspicion of participating in the activities of the Islamic State group (IS, a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation). This was announced on July 18 by Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya.

"As a result of the operations organized by our gendarmerie against the terrorist organization in 28 provinces, over the past two weeks we have arrested 153 people suspected of involvement in the activities of the Islamic State," he wrote on his page on the social network X (former. Twitter).

Terrorist search operations were organized in Istanbul, Izmir, Antalya, and Adana. The detainees are suspected of involvement in the activities of the Islamic State, financing the illegal group and its propaganda on social networks.

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Earlier, on June 1, the Anadolu agency reported the detention of one of the leaders of the Islamic State, Ozgur Altun, on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. It is specified that the operation was carried out jointly by the national intelligence organization of Turkey and the interdepartmental intelligence service of Pakistan.