Turkish authorities have arrested more than 100 people in the past week on suspicion of links to the Islamic State terrorist organization (ISIS), including plotting a bomb attack on a communist May Day march in Istanbul. This includes eight people who were detained on Monday on suspicion of committing crimes.
Communists celebrate May Day, or International Workers’ Day, on March 1 of each year. Ostensibly to commemorate the contributions of the global workers’ movement to society, but more often to celebrate the communist ideology responsible for so much. One hundred million People who died all over the world during that history. Celebrations planned in Turkey this year as Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government bans left-wing forces from using Istanbul’s iconic Taksim Square for celebrations, relegating them to smaller spaces. is not without controversy.
Turkey’s Interior Minister Ali Erikaya posted several messages on the social media site Twitter on Monday, claiming that jihadist terrorists were planning to bomb participants at May Day events. Following January’s bombing of a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul, dozens of arrests linked to Islamic State, once the world’s dominant terrorist threat, were made in Turkey for the first time since 2017. It was an attack by the Islamic State. After the collapse of the “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq in 2017, terrorism experts have warned that Islamic State has made a clear resurgence in Africa’s remote regions and is particularly active in recruiting talent in the Middle East and Central Asia.
In a message on Monday, Erikaya identified the prime suspect arrested in recent operations against ISIS only by his initials “KA” and said he was an ISIS-affiliated terrorist with “bomb-making knowledge.” insisted. Turkish officials said KA had stored explosive chemicals in his home that could cause a “massive explosion.”
KA aynı işyerinde kalan MH ile birlikte İstanbul’un Beykoz ilçesinde yakalandı ❗
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— Ali Yerlikaya (@AliYerlikaya) April 29, 2024
middle east news agency al monitorCiting Turkish news sources, reported that KA has been identified as a Syrian national and accused of planning to bomb a May Day event in Istanbul.
“With Monday’s operation, the number of people arrested on suspicion of ISIS links rose to 105 within a week,” Al-Monitor observed. “Since April 21, four separate operations have been carried out in almost 20 provinces of Turkey.…Over the past 10 months, Turkish authorities have carried out approximately 1,500 More than 3,000 suspects were arrested in this operation.
In an overview of the anti-terrorism operations released on Tuesday, Erikaya said that police will carry out operations in 11 Turkish provinces: Istanbul, Diyarbakir, Adana, Antalya, Bilecik, Mardin, Batman, Muğla, Muş, Sanliurfa and Van. He said he was engaged. It is not clear whether all states have linked police operations to ISIS, and Erikaya identified some states as affiliated with “separatist” groups, including the Marxist Kurdistan Workers’ Party. It was pointed out that this may refer to the PKK terrorist organization.
Although not identified by name, some of the individuals are listed as propagandists who share pro-ISIS content on their social media accounts, rather than being directly involved in accumulating weapons or making bombs. Yerlikaya reiterated that many of those detained were suspected of planning an attack on the May Day event.
“We will not tolerate any terrorists. With the excellent efforts of our security forces, we will continue to fight with determination for peace, unity and unity in our country until the last terrorist is neutralized.” Erikaya declared.
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— Ali Yerlikaya (@AliYerlikaya) April 30, 2024
Turkey is reportedly plan On Wednesday, it will deploy tens of thousands of police officers to Istanbul, one of the country’s biggest left-wing strongholds. The international left expressed anger at the Interior Ministry’s decision to block a rally in Taksim Square, which Prime Minister Yelikaya declared “inconvenient” for such an event. The city of Yelikaya has approved gatherings in 40 separate areas of the city, rather than allowing one large congregation.
Amnesty International called the restrictions a “ban” and called on Erdogan’s government to immediately reverse the decision.
“The ban on May Day celebrations is based on entirely spurious safety and security grounds and is contrary to recent Constitutional Court judgments. It needs to be lifted urgently,” said Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Europe. said Dinushika Dissanayake. Said. “Taksim Square is a place of great symbolic significance and has long been a place where people gather for protests and celebrations.”
Once criticized for his friendly relations with Islamic State, President Erdogan now falsely claims credit for eliminating the Islamic State caliphate based in Raqqa, Syria. In reality, the Syrian Defense Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia coalition, worked with U.S. forces to liberate Raqqa and end the terrorist state. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has increased his focus on the group after the first bombing in Istanbul in eight years in January.
Reports suggest that Islamic State is successfully consolidating its influence in the Middle East.
“The number of Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq is about 2,500, double the number estimated in late January, according to data just released by U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. forces across the Middle East and South Asia. That’s it,” Voice of America said. report In early April.
The Counter-Extremism Project, an organization that tracks global terrorism, released a report in April concluding that “March was, by every measure, ISIS Badia’s most violent month.” [central Syrian desert] The insurgency has been ongoing since late 2017, when the group lost control of territory for the first time. ”
