Turkish police detained 70 suspects with ties to the militant Islamic State group in raids this week across the country, abcNews reported yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The group has carried out a string of deadly attacks in T\u00fcrkiye 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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