{"id":95799,"date":"2025-12-31T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=95799"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:31:04","slug":"turkey-arrests-357-suspects-in-major-crackdown-on-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/turkey-arrests-357-suspects-in-major-crackdown-on-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey arrests 357 suspects in major crackdown on ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TURKEY: A total of 357 suspects have been <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/life-style\/sajal-aly-denies-marriage-rumors-with-hamza-sohail\/\">arrested<\/a> in a nationwide operation against the Islamic State group in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the operations were carried out simultaneously in 21 provinces, involving police counter-terrorism units, intelligence agencies and prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>The interior minister said the recent operations followed a major clash in the northwestern city of Yalova, where three police officers and six suspected militants were killed during an eight-hour siege. Security was tightened across the country after the clash.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the clash in Yalova was part of a wider operation that included raids at more than 100 locations. Schools in the area were closed due to security concerns, while gas and electricity supplies were temporarily suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish authorities also said that more than 100 suspects were detained last week on suspicion of planning possible terrorist attacks during Christmas and New Year celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has stepped up its crackdown on ISIS in recent years. The country has been a key transit point for foreign fighters heading to Syria, and ISIS carried out several deadly attacks in Turkey between 2015 and 2017, killing dozens.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the state was pursuing a zero-tolerance policy against terrorism and would not allow any extremist group to undermine the country\u2019s peace in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TURKEY: A total of 357 suspects have been arrested in a nationwide operation against the Islamic State group in Turkey. Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the operations were carried out simultaneously in 21 provinces, involving police counter-terrorism units, intelligence agencies and prosecutors. The interior minister said the recent operations followed a major clash in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":95800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[33367],"class_list":["post-95799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-turkey-arrests-357-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95801,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95799\/revisions\/95801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}