Turkish authorities detained six Islamic State-linked foreign nationals in anti-terror operations

Security forces detained at least six foreign nationals over suspected links to Daesh terrorist group in Turkey’s southern Adana province on Wednesday.

Counterterrorism squads raided the addresses specified as part of a wider probe into the terrorist group, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.

The suspects were taken to the police station after routine medical checks, the report added.

In 2013, Turkey became one of the first countries to declare Daesh a terrorist group.

The country has since been attacked by the terrorist group multiple times, with over 300 people killed and hundreds more injured in at least 10 suicide bombings, seven bomb attacks and four armed assaults.

In response, Turkey launched counterterrorism operations at home and abroad to prevent further attacks.

In May 2021, Ankara arrested a Daesh terrorist identified as the right-hand man of former terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Al-Baghdadi was killed in a United States military operation in Syria in 2019. Reports said that Turkish intelligence played a key role in the death of al-Baghdadi by detaining and extraditing one of his aides to Iraq, who then provided U.S. authorities with critical information to help locate the vicious man.

Turkish security forces have nabbed at least 850 suspects with links to Daesh in the first three months of 2021, dealing a heavy blow to the terrorist group’s presence in the country and its activities in the region.

Source: Daily Sabah