{"id":4179,"date":"2025-12-25T08:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T08:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/25\/turkey-istanbul-arrests-115-suspected-isis-christmas-new-year\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T08:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T08:01:07","slug":"turkey-istanbul-arrests-115-suspected-isis-christmas-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/25\/turkey-istanbul-arrests-115-suspected-isis-christmas-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Security Forces Arrest 115 Suspected ISIS Members in Istanbul Ahead of Christmas and New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Istanbul Prosecutor&#8217;s Office announced on Thursday that Turkish security forces have detained 115 individuals suspected of membership in the Islamic State (ISIS) and planning attacks during Christmas and New Year celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>According to the office, Istanbul police, based on intelligence information, concluded that ISIS members in Turkey, especially targeting non-Muslims, intended to carry out attacks during these festive occasions.<\/p>\n<p>A statement published on the social media platform X revealed that police raided 124 locations across Istanbul as part of the operation and arrested 115 out of 137 identified suspects.<\/p>\n<p>During the operation, several pistols and a quantity of ammunition were seized from the searched sites. Turkish authorities stated that investigations and efforts to arrest other suspects are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish police arrest 115 suspected ISIS members in Istanbul over planned attacks during Christmas and New Year celebrations. Investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}