Türkiye's interior ministry said on Saturday that authorities had arrested 119 people across the country accused of links to ISIS terror group. "(The) 199 suspects were arrested in a police operation carried out in 30 provinces against the ISIS terrorist organization," including in Istanbul and Ankara, the ministry said, using another name for the ISIS militant group. Charges levelled against those apprehended included ISIS group membership, posting ISIS propaganda on social media and financing ISIS through intermediaries or "so-called charities", the ministry said. In late June, Turkish police killed a man suspected of ISIS links in an exchange of gunfire in the south of Ankara, two weeks before a NATO summit was held in the capital. After that, 209 people suspected of links to the ISIS group or to far-left groups were arrested in Ankara on orders from the city's chief prosecutor.
