Oct 23, 2023, 7:15 PM

33 ISIL terror suspects detained in Turkey

33 ISIL terror suspects detained in Turkey

TEHRAN, Oct. 23 (MNA) – Turkish security forces arrested 33 foreign nationals in the capital Ankara over their suspected links to the ISIL terrorist group, police said on Monday.

Police nabbed 33 suspects in simultaneous operations to arrest 39 terror suspects, the Turkish General Directorate of Security said on X.

Simultaneous operations were carried out in 39 addresses in Ankara, Anadolu Agency reported.

The suspects will be handed over to a local repatriation center and efforts are ongoing to arrest the remaining six suspects, it added.

ISIL, which attacked Iraq on June 7, 2014, and managed to capture about 45% of the country's territory for a short period of time, was defeated in November 2017; However, since then, the remanent members of the terrorist group are present and operating in Iraq and Syria and carry out terrorist attacks from time to time.

Iraqi security forces keep searching, clearing, and chasing ISIL across the country to make sure that ISIL and its fugitive elements do not re-emerge.

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