Three ISIL suspects arrested in Turkey’s Sakarya

SAKARYA – Anadolu Agency

A court in the western Turkish province of Sakarya arrested three out of four detained Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suspects on May 21.

The charges against the suspects accuse them of being “members of an armed terrorist organization.”

The court’s move came following an investigation launched by the Sakarya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. Thereafter police raided the addresses of the four suspects based on information that they might be linked to ISIL.

The suspects were eventually dispatched to the Sakarya court of peace on duty, which ruled for three of them to be arrested and one to be released.

More than 300 people have lost their lives in recent years in ISIL-claimed attacks in Turkey, where the group has targeted civilians in suicide bomb, rocket, and gun attacks.