From the Telegraph and the Jerusalem Post
Turkey has arrested 115 alleged Islamic State (IS) terrorists accused of plotting Christmas and New Year’s Eve attacks.
Mass raids were carried out across Istanbul with authorities seizing pistols and other firearms, ammunition and “organisational documents”.
Officials said they were planning terror attacks across the country this week targeting non-Muslims during Christmas and New Year’s Eve celebrations.
Police are still hunting for a further 22 suspects. Prosecutors said many of those arrested were already wanted on terrorism charges at international levels.
On Monday, Turkish intelligence agents captured a senior IS member accused of orchestrating a separate series of suicide attacks. Mehmet Goren, a member of the Afghan-based branch of the group, Islamic State Khorasan, operated terror camps near the Afghanistan and Pakistan border.
Istanbul has faced other attacks against non-Muslims recently. On Sunday, Jews were attacked on their way to light Hanukkah candles at Neve Shalom Synagogue. The synagogue has been the target of several other terrorist attacks, including a massacre in 1986 that killed 22 people and truck bombings in 2003.
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