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| Turkey arrests 115 ISIS members it says were planning Christmas attacks | |
| 2025-12-25 | |
| [IsrelTimes] Turkish authorities have detained 115 suspected Islamic State members they say were planning to carry out attacks on Christmas and New Year celebrations in the country, the Istanbul chief prosecutor’s office says. Istanbul Police obtained information that Islamic State members had planned attacks in Turkey, against non-Muslims in particular, during Christmas and New Year celebrations, the prosecutor’s office posts on X. The police raided 124 places in Istanbul, capturing 115 of the 137 suspects they were seeking, the statement said. Several pistols and ammunition were seized, it says. Update from the Times of Israel at 1:15 p.m. ET: The police’s counter-terrorism operation is still ongoing.Turkey shares a 900-kilometer (559-mile) border with Syria, where jihadist groups are still active. Since the 2019 collapse of the self-proclaimed “caliphate,” some suspected ISIS members have settled in Turkey. This week, Turkey’s intelligence agency also conducted an operation on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area, capturing a Turkish national who it said held a senior role in the ISIS group. At the time of his arrest, Mehmet Goren, since transferred to Turkey, was accused of organizing suicide attacks targeting civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, and Europe.
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