Britain’s MI6 joins Turkey to fight ISIS

Based on intelligence provided by MI6, dozens of Islamic State safe houses in Istanbul have been raided and almost 300 suspects have been arrested in the crackdown in the Turkish city. This city has become the gateway for UK citizens who want to join the terror group.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 25 July 2015.

As per information, MI6 had made available intelligence that had been used to conduct raids at 140 addresses by some 5,000 police. It seems telephone intercepts were resorted to in order to pinpoint the support network for Britons travelling to Syria and Iraq.
It was a joint action and documents and laptops that have been seized have linked IS recruiters of European jihadis to some of the addresses where men and women were housed in the course of their transit to join the group.
These arrests are a result to the major change in stance by Turkey toward IS in which US warplanes were given permission for the first time to fly from a major southern Turkish base at Incirlik. Moreover, Turkey’s own F-16 fighter jets attacked jihadi positions inside Syria and hit three targets in which nine militants were killed.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has remarked that the US and Turkey’s air strikes have completely destroyed ISIS targets.
The dramatic change in Turkey’s stance can be attributed to the attack in the southern Turkish border city of Suruc by a suspected IS suicide bomber in which 32 anti-IS activists were killed.
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