A total of 536 suspects were captured in operations against the Daesh terrorist group in 57 provinces in the past 12 days n Turkey, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on Tuesday.
“Operation Mace” was carried out in coordination with prosecutor’s offices, the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) and the counterterrorism department of the police, Yerlikaya said in a social media post.
Since the 2019 collapse of their self-proclaimed "caliphate," some suspected Daesh members have settled in Turkey, operating a so-called Khorasan Province (Daesh-K) network, which looks for "new methods" and recruits more foreign members for its activities after constant counterterrorism operations became a "challenge.”
