Around 115 suspected members of the Islamic State terrorist movement have been arrested in Turkey, the country's Istanbul prosecutor's office said. The individuals are suspected of planning attacks against non-Muslims during the Christmas holidays, Turkish media reported.
"Following intelligence indicating that the terrorist organization IS was planning attacks during the Christmas and New Year celebrations," the prosecutor's office ordered the arrest of 137 people, of whom 115 have been arrested so far, the authority said in a statement.
According to the prosecutor's office, raids have been carried out at around a hundred addresses around Istanbul.
Turkey shares a 900-mile border with Syria, where jihadist groups are still active and where IS is blamed for an attack in mid-December that killed two American soldiers and a civilian.
On Christmas Eve, a high-ranking leader of the terrorist movement in Syria was arrested, the state news agency Sana reported.
