ANKARA, Turkey : Turkey's state-run news agency says police have detained some 40 suspected ISIS group terrorists in raids in southern Turkey.
Anadolu Agency says special forces police, backed by armored vehicles and a helicopter, conducted the raids in the city of Adana early on Friday.
Those detained are suspected of membership in the extremist group and of engaging in ISIS propaganda, the agency said.
Turkey has, since 2015, suffered a wave of deadly bombing attacks carried out either by ISIS terrorists or by Kurdish terrorists.
The country sent troops and tanks into northern Syria in August to support Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters in clearing a border area of the ISIS group and curbing the territorial expansion of Syrian Kurdish groups.
Anadolu Agency says special forces police, backed by armored vehicles and a helicopter, conducted the raids in the city of Adana early on Friday.
Those detained are suspected of membership in the extremist group and of engaging in ISIS propaganda, the agency said.
The country sent troops and tanks into northern Syria in August to support Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters in clearing a border area of the ISIS group and curbing the territorial expansion of Syrian Kurdish groups.
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