A suspected Islamic State member believed to be plotting to bomb a World War One commemoration has been arrested by Turkish police .
Hundreds of Australians and New Zealanders are gathering at Gallipoli to hold a special service marking the landings of ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) forces.
Every year they travel to Turkey for the memorial services commemorating the failed 1915 military campaign by ANZAC and allied forces to drive Ottoman troops from Gallipoli and the Dardanelles region.
Police say the Syrian suspect, was detained in Tekirdag.
Demiroren news agency said the man was preparing for an attack on the commemorations in retaliation for the attacks on Muslims in mosques in New Zealand.
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The police spokesman did not specify which day the detained suspect may have been planning to carry out an attack.
Turkey has said Islamic State was responsible for several bombings that took place in 2015 and 2016, which in total killed some 200 people.
Although the militant group has not been active in Turkey of late, authorities still carry out routine operations against suspected Islamic State members.
This year's ANZAC service takes place a month after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan faced criticism from Australia and New Zealand for comments he made after a lone gunman killed 50 people in two mosques in the city of Christchurch on March 15.
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Erdogan played a video from the shootings at local election rallies and said the gunman had targeted Turkey by saying in a manifesto posted online that Turks should be removed from the European half of Istanbul.
He also threatened to send back in coffins anyone who tried to take the battle to Istanbul.
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Fifty other people were injured in the attacks, which occurred during Friday prayers.
