Turkish Police Kill Six IS Terrorists

Three Police Officers Killed, Eight Injured

Turkish police engaged in a gunfight with the radical terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) in the suburbs of Istanbul, resulting in a total of nine deaths.

Turkish special forces were deployed in the Yalova region on the 29th (local time) to carry out an operation to eliminate the Islamic State (IS). Photo by Yonhap News Agency

According to local media such as Anadolu Agency on the 29th (local time), a shootout broke out during an IS elimination operation by police in the residential area of Elmalik Village, located in downtown Yalova, a city in northwestern Turkey, on the morning of the same day.

Ali Yerlikaya, Turkey's Minister of Interior, announced that three police officers were killed and eight were injured in this incident. The police killed six IS-affiliated terrorists.

Previously, on the 25th, Turkish prosecutors revealed that they had detected indications that IS was plotting terrorist attacks to coincide with the New Year. They launched simultaneous raids through the police and arrested 115 suspects.