While Democrats remain obsessed with policing social media posts, DEI initiatives, and prosecuting political opponents, Turkey just rounded up more suspected terrorists in a single day than many Western governments arrest in an entire year.
Turkish security forces carried out sweeping anti-terror raids across Ankara on Tuesday, detaining 209 suspects linked to multiple extremist organizations ahead of next month’s NATO summit, which President Donald Trump is expected to attend. According to Fox News, prosecutors issued detention orders for 241 suspects, with authorities successfully taking 209 into custody.
Among those arrested were 56 alleged ISIS operatives and 35 members of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front, a far-left terrorist organization known for armed attacks and assassinations inside Turkey.
The operation comes less than two weeks before NATO leaders gather in Ankara for the July 7-8 summit, where Trump is expected to join leaders from the alliance’s 32 member nations. Turkish authorities have already announced extensive security measures, including restricting access around summit venues, airports, and hotels housing foreign delegations.
The arrests are part of a much broader anti-terror campaign. Just last month, Turkish authorities detained 324 suspected ISIS-linked individuals across 47 provinces in one of the country’s largest nationwide counterterrorism operations in recent years. Turkish officials said many of those targeted were suspected of financing ISIS or maintaining active ties to the organization.
That follows another major operation late last year when Turkish authorities detained 125 suspected ISIS members in coordinated raids across 25 provinces amid concerns about potential Christmas and New Year’s attacks.
In other words, Turkey has detained more than 650 suspected ISIS-linked individuals in just the past several months.
That’s what taking terrorism seriously looks like.
The arrests also serve as a reminder of something America’s political class would prefer not to discuss: ISIS remains a threat.
Although President Trump oversaw the destruction of the ISIS caliphate during his first term, the terrorist network never fully disappeared. Instead, it adapted, dispersed, and expanded into new regions, particularly across Africa and parts of the Middle East.
The threat has become serious enough that Trump authorized a series of military operations in Africa earlier this year targeting senior ISIS leadership.
One May 16 strike reportedly eliminated Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, described as ISIS’s second-in-command globally.
“Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of ISIS globally, thought he could hide in Africa, but little did he know we had sources who kept us informed on what he was doing,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after the operation.
“He will no longer terrorize the people of Africa, or help plan operations to target Americans.”
Recent intelligence warnings have also indicated that ISIS propagandists have encouraged supporters to target major international events, including the upcoming World Cup, raising concerns among security officials.
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