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Turkey detains 22 IS suspects

Xinhua, July 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

Turkish police detained 15 Islamic State (IS) suspects in the capital Ankara and another seven in southern Turkey on Monday, private Dogan News Agency reported.

The Turkish police raided several houses in Hacibayram district of Ankara where the households of the IS members are reportedly located, said the report.

The police also detained seven suspected IS members in Mersin province in southern Turkey on Monday, the report added.

Monday's operations are part of a series of such kind since last week after a suspected IS suicide bomber killed 32 people in southern Suruc of Sanliurfa province in southeastern Turkey bordering neighboring Syria a week ago.

More than 600 suspects have been detained since Friday in the police's anti-terror operations against the IS, outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) and the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front.

On Thursday, a Turkish soldier in southern region bordering Syria was killed by gun fire opened from across the border.

Turkey has carried out its first ever military operations against the IS on the Syrian side of the border and destroyed several IS targets. Endit