ISTANBUL – Turkish police detained 38 people, some of them Syrian
citizens, over suspected links to Islamic State in an operation on Thursday
in the northwestern province of Bursa, the state-run Anadolu news agency
said.
Counter-terrorism police carried out simultaneous raids on homes in various
districts of Bursa, smashing doors open with battering rams and searching
the properties, it said.
Islamic State militants have carried out gun and bomb attacks in
Turkey.
Many foreign fighters passed through
Turkey in recent years on their way to
join the jihadist group in territory it controlled in Syria and Iraq.
A year ago, the group claimed responsibility for a New Year’s Day mass
shooting by a lone gunman who killed 39 people in a packed Istanbul
nightclub.
A trial of those allegedly behind the attack began this month.