On 7th of November, Turkish police detained seven foreign nationals in southern
Turkey on suspicion of planning to head to Syria to join the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), state media said.
The
detentions were part of a series of police operations against suspected
ISIL members across Turkey, which is on high alert ahead of a G-20
summit of world leaders on Nov. 15-16. Anti-terror police launched a
dawn raid at a hotel in the southern Adana province and detained the
suspects, a French
couple of Tunisian origin and five Indonesians, semi-official Anadolu
Agency reported, adding that they were scheduled to be deported on Nov. 7
along with two children, one of whom is disabled.
Turkey is
imposing tight security ahead of the G-20 summit at the Mediterranean
resort city of Antalya, which will bring together a host of leaders
including U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Police on Nov. 6 also carried out simultaneous raids in Antalya, detaining 20 people suspected of links to ISIL, including two Russian nationals and two women. They also detained 44 Moroccans and their Syrian guides at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport on suspicion that they were planning to head to Syria.
Turkey has stepped up operations against ISIL since the group was blamed for twin bombings on a peace rally in Ankara last month that killed 102 people, including two suicide bombers, the worst such attack in its history.
Hurriyet Daily News
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