Turkish authorities have reportedly arrested a suspected ISIS member working at a nuclear power plant in Turkey.
Anti-terrorism police arrested the Russian national who was working at the Akkuyu facility under construction using fake identity papers, according to Ikhlas News Agency and other media.
The suspect appeared before a Turkish court and was detained pending trial.
The £15.8bn power plant is being built by Russian state-owned energy giant Rosatom in Mersin province. Türkiye The Mediterranean Coast.
Akkuyu obtained nuclear facility status last April when it received its first nuclear fuel, and is expected to start producing electricity next year.
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said last week that 147 people were suspected of having ties to the group He is They were arrested all over Türkiye.
The terrorist group has targeted the country in recent years.
ISIS claimed responsibility A shooting last month led to death One person during Sunday Mass in the Catholic Church in Istanbul.
Surveillance camera footage of an attack by gunmen on Santa Maria Church in Istanbul last month. Photo: Reuters
The group said that it “attacked a gathering of Christian infidels during their polytheistic ceremony” inside the Santa Maria Church in the Büyükdere neighborhood of the city.
Yerlikaya said at the time that two men, one from Russia and the other from Tajikistan, believed to be members of ISIS, had been arrested. Dozens of suspects were also arrested in connection with the attack.
The extremist group also carried out a series of deadly attacks in the country, including one Shooting in a nightclub in Istanbul in 2017 Which killed 39 people and Bomb attack in Ankara in 2015 Who killed 109.
