Turkey mentioned Wednesday it has arrested 56 high-priority suspects wished by 18 nations for crimes starting from drug trafficking and cash laundering to homicide, counterfeiting and assault.
Inside Minister Ali Yerlikaya mentioned the suspects have been listed on Interpol's “pink discover” on “diffusion message” methods, which flag suspects wished by particular person nations for arrest and extradition.
The detained folks have been wished in america, Germany, India and several other former Soviet republics, in addition to in different components of Asia and the Center East.
Yerlikaya's workplace didn’t reveal any names, solely noting that the suspects have been captured throughout coordinated safety investigations in 11 provinces, together with Istanbul.
Turkey's Inside Ministry and the MIT intelligence company have introduced a fast sequence of high-profile raids in latest weeks.
They introduced the detention of greater than 200 folks allegedly linked to jihadists from the Islamic State group in two separate sequence of raids forward of New Yr's celebrations.
They introduced on Tuesday the arrest of 34 folks accused of spying for Israel.
Yerlikaya is seen as an in depth and impressive political ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has introduced main arrests since his appointment final yr.
He has dominated himself out of working as mayor of Istanbul within the high-stakes elections due on March 31, preferring to retain his put up as inside minister.
Erdogan's Islamic conservative celebration hopes to regain management of Turkey's three most essential cities – Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir – from the secular opposition in March polls.
AFP
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