Turkish police detained 70 suspects with ties to the militant Islamic State group in raids this week across the country, abcNews reported yesterday.
According to a social-media post by Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya, large amounts of money, digital material and receipts for hawala banking transactions were also discovered in the raids.
In late December, Turkish security forces detained 32 suspected IS militants that the state-run Anadolu news agency said were allegedly planning attacks on synagogues, churches and the Iraqi Embassy.
The group has carried out a string of deadly attacks in Türkiye over the last decade, including on Jan. 1, 2017, that killed 39 people during New Year’s celebrations and the bombing of a peace march in Ankara in October 2015 that killed some 105 people.
