Turkey detains 4 IS suspects in probe of US embassy threat
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Turkish police detained four Islamic State suspects as part of an investigation into a possible attack on the US. Embassy in Ankara, the country's state-run news agency reported on Monday.
The arrests came as the embassy was closed on Monday over an unspecified security threat.
The Anadolu Agency said police detained four Iraqi nationals in connection with the threat against the embassy. Two of them were detained on a bus at a security check on a highway linking the Black Sea city of Samsun to Ankara. Two others were detained in Samsun by police acting on information they provided, the report said.
The agency identified the suspects by their first names only.
