Turkey detains over 200 suspects including alleged ISIS militants in sweeping raid ahead of NATO summit

Turkish authorities reportedly detained much than 200 people, including suspected ISIS-linked militants, successful a sweeping Tuesday raid successful superior Ankara up of a July 7-8 NATO summit.

The raid came aft Turkish authorities issued detention orders for 241 suspects, 209 of whom were taken into custody, The Associated Press reported, citing a connection from the bureau of Turkey's main prosecutor.

Among the 209 detained, 56 were allegedly ISIS militants, according to the AP. This comes aft Turkish authorities said they detained 125 ISIS members successful December.

The detention operations occurred conscionable 2 weeks earlier a planned NATO acme successful Ankara connected July 7 that President Donald Trump is expected to attend.

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President Donald Trump greets Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a acme successful Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, connected Oct. 13, 2025, to enactment ending the Israel-Hamas warfare successful Gaza aft a breakthrough ceasefire deal. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo/Pool)

Other militants scooped up were 35 alleged members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front, which a Turkish connection described arsenic "a far‑left radical known for equipped attacks and assassinations successful Turkey," according to the AP.

The ISIS-combating operations show the violent group's ongoing enactment successful the region, showing the radical is inactive functioning contempt the U.S. run during Trump's archetypal word to destruct the group's caliphate and its power of ample swaths of territory successful the Middle East.

Iraqi authorities forces observe portion holding an Islamis Sate (IS) radical emblem aft they claimed they person gained implicit power of the Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, connected January 26, 2015 adjacent the municipality of Muqdadiyah. (YOUNIS AL-BAYATI/AFP via Getty Images)

In caller years, ISIS has dispersed into the African continent, prompting a beardown effect from the U.S. In May, Trump authorized a bid of strikes successful Nigeria to combat the group.

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A May 16 onslaught killed ISIS person Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, who was the group's second-in-command globally.

U.S. and Nigerian forces conducted kinetic strikes against ISIS fighters successful northeastern Nigeria connected Sunday, May 17, 2026, AFRICOM said. (X / U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM))

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"Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, 2nd successful bid of ISIS globally, thought he could fell successful Africa, but small did helium cognize we had sources who kept america informed connected what helium was doing," Trump wrote successful a station connected Truth Social aft the strike. "He volition nary longer terrorize the radical of Africa, oregon assistance program operations to people Americans."

The group's renewed enactment besides includes a telephone to supporters to marque attacks connected U.S. ungraded during the World Cup.