Al Jazeera English Six ISIL fighters, 3 police officers killed in northwest Turkiye raid

Six ISIL (ISIS) fighters have been killed in a shootout in northwest Turkiye that also left three police officers dead, the Turkish Interior Ministry has said.
In a speech on Monday, Minister of Interior Ali Yerlikaya said that security forces carried out 108 separate overnight raids on alleged ISIL hideouts across 13 provinces.
One of the raids took place at 2am on Monday (23:00 GMT on Sunday) at a home in Yalova province’s Elmalik village, located south of Istanbul in a residential neighbourhood.
Fire was exchanged when officers raided the home, Yerlikaya said, resulting in the deaths of the three officers and the six alleged ISIL fighters. Yerlikaya said that the fighters killed in the attack were all Turkish citizens.
Eight policemen and one night watchman were also wounded.
Five women and six children were safely evacuated from the house during the raid, the minister said.

Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu reports from Istanbul.

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