Turkey Detains 81 Mostly Foreigners on Suspected Islamic State Links: Dogan
By REUTERSOCT. 27, 2016, 5:39 A.M. E.D.T.
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ANKARA — Turkish authorities detained 81 people, most of them foreigners, on Thursday on suspicion of planning to travel illegally to join Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, the privately-owned Dogan news agency said.
It said 21 of those detained were suspected of being senior figures in the Islamic State network, while 60 were foreign nationals. It said the operation was centered in Istanbul but involved raids at 31 locations in six Turkish provinces.
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