Turkey’s anti-terrorism police have detained more than 440 people for alleged links to the group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the state-run agency reported Sunday. CBC reports.
The Anadolu Agency said 60 ISIS suspects, the vast majority of them foreigners, were taken into custody early Sunday in the capital, Ankara.
It said a total of 445 people were detained in simultaneous pre-dawn police operations that spanned several cities, including Istanbul and Gaziantep, near the border with Syria.