Istanbul - Arab Today
The Turkish police arrested 17 suspected ISIS members, including several foreign nationals, as part of an anti-terror operation in Istanbul.
Anti-terrorist teams raided seven addresses of a suspect accused of housing suspected foreign ISIS members, Turkey's Anadolu Agency reported.
Police said 15 of the suspects held in the Istanbul district of Zeytinburnu were foreign nationals who would be deported.
Elsewhere in Turkey on Friday, a number of ISIS suspects were either arrested or remanded to stand trial on anti-terror charges.
An Ankara court remanded in custody five suspected ISIS members.
In the southeastern providence of Gaziantep, three suspected ISIS members were also remanded in custody on Friday, the local governorship confirmed in a statement.
Gaziantep governorship said the suspects were accused of planning suicide attacks which would have targeted Turkish soldiers travelling to join Operation Euphrates Shield in northern Syria.
Turkey has taken steps to crack down on ISIS since 2014 when the terror group launched a series of suicide bombings in the country.
Source: QNA