Turkey's state-run news
agency says two people suspected of being members of the Islamic State group
have been killed in an Ankara police operation.
Ankara's governor told
the Anadolu news agency Sunday the suspects may have been planning an attack on
Turkey's capital. Police recovered weapons and explosives in the raid. Governor
Ercan Topaca said the two men, in their 20s, have not been identified yet.
The nighttime police
operation was conducted after a man from Azerbaijan, thought to be an IS
member, was detained in Istanbul. The unnamed suspect allegedly drove the two
men to Ankara.
Turkey has been hit by
a string of attacks blamed on IS and Kurdish militants since 2015. On New
Year's Eve, a gunman killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub. IS claimed the
attack.