Police arrest 8 ISIL members in northern Turkey

Turkish police simultaneously stormed some addresses at dawn after the Public Prosecutor's Office in the İlkadım, Atakum, and Çarşamba districts of Samsun province had issued arrest warrants for foreign nationals, who had acted within The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) ranks in Iraq and Syria.

Organizational documents and digital materials related to the group were also seized in the operation.

The suspects are being interrogated in the provincial police department.

The suspects will be transferred to the courthouse when their official procedures at the police department are completed. (ILKHA)