Turkey detains 209 in raids in the capital of Ankara ahead of July's NATO summit

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Security forces successful the Turkish superior carried retired sweeping raids connected Tuesday up of adjacent month’s NATO summit, and detained much than 200 radical with suspected links to extremist groups, including the Islamic State group.

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to articulation different leaders of the 32‑member confederation successful Ankara for the July 7–8 summit.

Turkey is readying strict information measures for the summit, including banning demonstrations and restricting entree to roads starring to airports, arsenic good arsenic sealing disconnected areas astir the acme venue and hotels hosting delegations.

The authorities of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has prioritized information and authorities regularly transportation retired information raids. Last month, information forces detained 324 radical suspected of links to the Islamic State radical successful a nationwide sweep.

Early connected Tuesday, Turkish prosecutors issued detention orders for 241 suspects, and 209 of them were subsequently taken into custody successful constabulary and gendarmerie raids astir Ankara, according to a connection from the main prosecutor’s office. The raids were inactive underway aboriginal Tuesday to instrumentality successful the remainder of the suspects.

Among those detained were 56 alleged Islamic State militants and 35 members of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front, a far‑left radical known for equipped attacks and assassinations successful Turkey.

The Islamic State radical has besides carried retired galore deadly attacks successful Turkey, including the 2017 New Year’s Eve shooting astatine an Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 people.

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