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Turkey said it had detained more than 100 people this week for suspected links to the Islamic State group, AFP reported.
This is the latest large-scale arrest in Türkiye against the terrorist group.
New attacks took place across the country, including in the capital Ankara and Turkey’s largest city Istanbul.
The 119 arrests this week follow other mass arrests, including 99 announced in early August.
Since the fall of the self-proclaimed “caliphate” in 2019, some suspected Islamic State members have settled in Turkey.
Turkish authorities say more than 3,600 people suspected of links to the group have been arrested since June 2023.
Recently, the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office charged two men with planning a shooting near the Swedish Parliament in central Stockholm.
German Interior Minister Nancy Fesser previously said the country faced a “consistently high” threat from Islamist terrorism.
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