Turkey has arrested 14 suspected members of ISIS in an operation launched in the southern state of Mersin, Anatolia news agency reported.
The Mersin Security Directorate quoted a statement on Thursday, saying that counter-terrorism teams had begun a study against suspects who had spread propaganda for ISIS through a WhatsApp group, and that they had worked in the past within the organization’s cell structures in Turkey.
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It confirmed the arrest of 14 foreign suspects through a simultaneous operation launched throughout the state.
After taking action against them, the detainees were transferred to the court, which in turn released six of them on a conditional basis, and the other eight were deported.
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