Ankara

NATO summit in Turkey: suspected ISIS member killed in police operation

The man died in a shootout with the police during operations to arrest alleged members of the so-called Islamic State ahead of the NATO summit scheduled for 7 and 8 July

24 June 2026

Foto di propaganda dello Stato Islamico dell'Iraq e del Levante che ritrae militanti mascherati con in mano lo stendardo nero dell'ISIS dedicato a Maometto. (Crediti immagine: Dabiq/Planet Pix /ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters Connect)

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A suspected ISIS member was killed in Ankara during a shootout with the police whilst officers were carrying out operations to arrest alleged members of the so-called Islamic State ahead of the NATO summit scheduled for 7 and 8 July.

Anti-ISIS police operations in Ankara

According to NTV, yesterday the police raided the home – in Haymana, in the province of Ankara – of a suspected ISIS member who ‘had issued instructions for an attack via social media ahead of the NATO summit’. During the operation, a shootout broke out between the officers and the suspect, who was killed, whilst his wife was injured.

During operations carried out yesterday in the province of Ankara and in the capital itself, two weeks ahead of the NATO summit, 209 people were arrested, whilst arrest warrants had been issued for a total of 241 suspects believed to belong to ISIS or various armed far-left groups, such as the DHKP-C.

According to Anadolu, 55,000 police and gendarmerie officers will be responsible for security in Ankara during the NATO summit, whilst some patrols have already been deployed in the areas of the Turkish capital where summit-related events will take place, and round-the-clock patrols are already in operation in these areas.

Suspected ISIS members are regularly arrested in Turkey, and since the start of the year hundreds have already been taken into custody, whilst in 2025 over a thousand people suspected of having links of some kind with the so-called Islamic State were arrested.

In April, three people opened fire on the police outside the Israeli Consulate building in Istanbul and, although no group has ever claimed responsibility for the attack, the Turkish Interior Minister stated that one of the attackers had links to ‘an organisation that exploits religion’, a statement that many Turkish journalists interpreted as a reference to ISIS, an organisation which, in the past – particularly in 2016 – carried out numerous attacks in Turkey.

Centcom’s anti-ISIS operations in Syria

Forces under the US Central Command carried out an air strike in north-western Syria on 19 June, resulting in the death of a senior ISIS leader.

The precision strike killed Ali Husayn al-’Ulaywi and forms part of the United States’ ongoing efforts to disrupt and eliminate terrorists seeking to target Americans abroad or on US soil. Centcom forces continue to work with regional partners.

“CENTCOM and our partners remain committed to eradicating the remnants of ISIS to ensure its lasting defeat,” said Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of CENTCOM. “We will continue to defend the US homeland, our military personnel, and our allies and partners throughout the region.”

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