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Fighting Daesh: Turkish Police Detain 20 Suspects

Fighting Daesh: Turkish Police Detain 20 Suspects
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A Turkish newspaper revealed that the police has detained more than 20 Daesh [Arabic Acronym for the terrorist "ISIS"/ "ISIL" group] suspects, including a Syrian man believed to be organizing an attack in Istanbul.

Fighting Daesh: Turkish Police Detain 20 Suspects

According to Haber-Turk daily, the police arrested the man, identified as Ali al-Aggal and codenamed Azzov, believed to be Daesh's organizer of Turkey attacks, in an operation in the Turkish capital Ankara.

In a separate raid, police held 24 other suspects from Iraq and Syria in the Kucukcekmece district of Istanbul, the newspaper said.

It added nine of the suspects were suspected of having direct contacts with al-Aggal and were awaiting explosives and ammunition from him in order to carry out an attack in Istanbul.

The remaining 15 suspects were planning to cross the Turkish border into conflict zones, the newspaper said.

Police found out that suspected extremists used the building in Kucukcekmece as a "sleeper cell" and seized many documents and digital materials allegedly belonging to the extremist group, according to the report.

Turkey has suffered a series of attacks blamed on Daesh including a suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding in a city close to the Syrian border in August.

The latest arrests come as several embassies, including Britain's, closed Friday for security reasons.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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