Turkey pressed on with its "war on terror" on Tuesday, just five days before the country goes to the polls, detaining dozens of "Islamic State" (ISIS) terrorist suspects and hitting Kurdish rebels across the border in Syria, AFP reports.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been playing the security card in the run-up to Sunday's vote with tensions running high over the renewed Turkish conflict and a massive bomb attack blamed on IS jihadists.
Around 200 Turkish police launched a massive dawn swoop on suspected IS hideouts in the conservative central Anatolian city of Konya, detaining 30 jihadists including one woman, media reports said. Another 14 suspects were arrested in a similar operation in the town of Kocaeli, east of Istanbul, the Anatolia news agency said.