Turkey intensified its anti-Islamic State (IS) operations, arresting 125 suspects in nationwide raids on Wednesday, bringing the total detentions to nearly 600 over the past week. This follows intelligence warnings about planned attacks during the holiday season.

• 125 Islamic State group suspects were detained across 25 provinces on Wednesday.
• Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya confirmed the arrests on X, using the acronym Daesh for IS.
• The arrests come after 115 IS suspects were apprehended on Christmas Day due to intelligence warnings of holiday attacks, and a prior operation resulted in a gun battle where three officers and six IS militants were killed in Yalova.