Turkey Detains IS Suspects En Route to Germany, Anadolu Reports
- Suspects were posing as tourists, held fake hotel bookings
- Special unit of Istanbul police detained suspects at airport
Ataturk Airport in Istanbul.
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Turkish police at Istanbul’s main airport detained eight suspected members of Islamic State group whose final destination appeared to be Germany, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported Wednesday.
The suspects arrived Tuesday from Casablanca, Morocco and were posing as regular tourists, Anadolu reported. During their interrogation at the Ataturk Airport, the suspects’ hotel bookings were discovered to be fake, while one man was carrying a crudely drawn migration route from Istanbul to Germany through Greece, Serbia, Hungary and Austria, the report said.