02 November 2017•Update: 03 November 2017
ANKARA
Police arrested 283 suspects, including 96 Turkish citizens and 187 foreigners during nationwide anti-Daesh operations between Oct. 22 and Nov. 1, according to the Security General Directorate Thursday.
In central Cankiri province, 11 suspects were sent to court while eight others were expected to be deported from the country.
Sixty-six hand-made explosives, 8 pistols, 405 pistol cartridges, three rifles, 39 rifle cartridges and a number digital material belonging to the terror group were also seized.
In southern Adana province, 19 Daesh suspects arrested during the operations on Oct. 29 were produced before the court on Thursday.
The 19 suspects are facing up to 70 years behind bars for their involvement in five different terror incidents, including suicide bomb attack on July 1, 2016 in Adana's Sabanci Mosque.
In a separate operation, three Iraqi Daesh suspects were arrested on Thursday in northern Corum province over terror charges and are expected to be deported once the investigation is over.
As part of ongoing nationwide counter-terrorism operations, four PKK, one Daesh and one suspected member of far-left terror group DHKP-C were arrested in northwestern Canakkale province.
Also in western Izmir province, 10 PKK suspects were arrested for spreading terrorist propaganda.
Three unlicensed rifles, one blank cartridge gun, 43 gun cartridges, 18 SIM cards, nine CDs, 17 cellular phones with four memory disks and the terror organization's banners were found from the possession of the suspects.
The PKK -- listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and EU -- resumed its armed campaign against Turkey in July 2015. Since then, it has been responsible for the deaths of more than 1,200 Turkish security personnel and civilians.
