Turkish police arrested 22 Syrian and Iraqi
nationals in a series of raids over suspicions of their links to the
Islamic State terrorist group, state news agency Anadolu reported.
The raids were conducted in the capital, Ankara, the report said.
Seventeen Iraqis and five Syrians were held.
They fought for Islamic
State in Syria and Iraq and had entered Turkey illegally, according
to Anadolu.
Security measures across the country are typically tightened ahead of
Labour Day on Wednesday.
Last week, a suspected Islamic State member was detained in the
north-western province of Tekirdag and accused of planning an attack
on a World War I commemoration ceremony.
Turkey was hit by a series of deadly attacks blamed on Islamic State
since 2015, including a New Year's attack on 2017 at an Istanbul
nightclub that killed 39 people.
Men suspected of being Islamic State (IS) militants wait to be searched by members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after leaving the IS group’s last holdout of Baghouz, in the northern Deir Ezzor province. February 27, 2019 file picture.