ANKARA Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on Friday that Turkey officials had detained 304 persons in operations spanning 32 regions on suspicion of having ties to the extremist group Daesh.
According to Yerlikaya on social messaging site X, most suspects were being held in Turkiye’s three largest cities, Ankara, Istanbul, and Izmir. He claimed that “Operation Heroes-34” was conducted concurrently nationwide.
“For the sake of peace and the unity of our people, we will not permit any terrorists to open their eyes. With the tremendous efforts of our security forces, we will continue to fight,” he declared, displaying video of police raids in which they were seen breaking into homes and businesses and putting suspects into cars.
In 2014, Daesh held a third of both Iraq and Syria. Even after being driven back, it keeps up its guerrilla assaults.
It has carried out multiple assaults throughout Turkey, such as the one on a nightclub in Istanbul on January 1, 2017, which resulted in the deaths of 39 people.
Following the October 1 bombing of government facilities in Ankara by Kurdish militants, authorities have intensified operations against both Daesh and these groups in recent weeks.
Turkey routinely targets the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which it views as a terrorist group, both domestically and in northern Iraq.
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