Border units from the Turkish armed forces captured Saturday four ISIS suspects in the Akcakale district of Sanliurfa in southeast Turkey, on the Syrian border while they were attempting to cross the frontier illegally.
One of the suspects, identified as Feride Samur, was being sought with a red notice arrest warrant.
ISIS armed members conducted offensives in some Turkish states that claimed more than 300 lives and wounded dozens. The group also claimed responsibility for the gunshot in Reina nightclub during New Year’s Eve 2017.
The group members used Turkey as a passage between Syria and Iraq, during the past years.
Turkish security forces on Sunday arrested 30 ISIS-linked suspects, all foreign nationals, in the capital Ankara before the New Year’s Eve 2019.
In a separate operation, Turkish security forces on Friday arrested 10 Iraqi nationals in the north of the country, suspecting them of having links to the ISIS. According to Anadolu Agency, the arrests were made in northern Samsun province of Turkey.
Turkey prevented some 347 terror acts in 2018, the country's interior minister Suleyman Soylu said. "Last year, we prevented 697 terror acts - which became 347 this year. There is a tremendous struggle and serious success that can't be ignored," Soylu said.
ISIS extremists are blamed in Turkey for a spate of terror attacks including a 2015 bombing on a peace rally in the capital Ankara's train station that claimed 103 lives and wounded more than 500.
In December 2018, Turkish security forces arrested 251 suspected ISIS members, according to data released by the country’s interior ministry.
