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Turkey’s interior ministry said on Saturday that authorities had arrested 119 people across the country accused of links to ISIS group.

“(The) 199 suspects were arrested in a police operation carried out in 30 provinces against the Daesh terrorist organization,” including in Istanbul and Ankara, the ministry said, using another name for the ISIS extremist group.

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Charges leveled against those apprehended included ISIS group membership, posting ISIS propaganda on social media and financing ISIS through intermediaries or “so-called charities,” the ministry said.

In late June, Turkish police killed a man suspected of ISIS links in an exchange of gunfire in the south of Ankara, two weeks before a NATO summit was held in the capital.

After that, 209 people suspected of links to ISIS group or to far-left groups were arrested in Ankara on orders from the city’s chief prosecutor.

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