The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Tuesday (May 17th) the arrest in the northwest of the country of three people suspected of being members of the Islamic State (IS) organization planning a suicide attack, reported the state agency. Turkish Anadolu.
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Teams from the Counter-Terrorism Directorate arrested three foreign nationals in Bursa, in the north-west of the country, on suspicion of belonging to IS and planning a suicide attack.
Their nationality was not specified.
Several attacks committed in 2015 and 2016 in Turkey were claimed by IS or attributed by Ankara to the jihadist group.
In January 2016, a suicide bomber blew himself up in the heart of historic Istanbul in the middle of a group of German tourists, killing 12 of them.
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Turkish authorities had claimed that the bomber was a 28-year-old Syrian, a member of IS, but the latter did not formally claim responsibility for the attack.
IS, however, claimed responsibility for an attack on an Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 people on New Year's Eve 2017.