土耳其加強打擊伊斯蘭國

Turkey has intensified its crackdown on Islamic State-associated militants since the deadly New Year's Eve attack on Istanbul's Reina nightclub that was claimed by IS, according to officials and analysts.

Data gathered by a private Turkish firm says eight IS militants have been killed in Turkey this year, with nearly 500 others arrested and 525 convicted.

In addition, Turkey says its recently completed military operation in northern Syria, known as Euphrates Shield, killed 2,288 IS members since it began last August, including 750 this year.

In past years, Turkey came under blistering criticism for allowing IS militants from other countries to gain passage into neighboring Syria and Iraq and allowing IS sympathizers to gain havens in the southeast of the country.

Turkey has been targeted by IS militants several times including the Reina attack by an Uzbek gunman that took 39 lives and wounded many others.

As the threat from IS became clear, Turkey took on a larger role in the coalition campaign against IS in Syria and Iraq in mid-2015 and began a systematic crackdown internally.

According to Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak, 74,000 foreigners who came to Turkey to enter Syria and join IS have been caught and expelled in the last two years.據有關官員和分析人士消息，自從伊斯蘭國聲稱在新年前夜製造了伊斯坦布爾萊納夜總會致命襲擊事件後，土耳其 一直在強化對伊斯蘭國激進分子的打擊。

由土耳其一傢俬人公司蒐集的數據顯示，今年已有8名伊斯蘭國激進分子在土耳其被打死，近5百人被捕，525人被判刑。

另外，土耳其表示，最近完成了在敘利亞北部代號爲“幼發拉底之盾”的軍事行動，自從該戰役去年8月開始以來，已經打死2288名伊斯蘭國成員，其中包括今年打死的750人。

近幾年裏，土耳其一直因允許伊斯蘭國激進分子從其他國家借道土耳其進入鄰國敘利亞和伊拉克，並允許伊斯蘭國的同情者在土耳其東南部獲得庇護而受到激烈的抨擊。

土耳其同時也一直是伊斯蘭國激進分子襲擊的目標，其中包括由一名烏茲別克槍手實施的萊納襲擊事件，事件導致39人喪生，多人受傷。

鑑於來自伊斯蘭國的襲擊變得清晰明確，土耳其從2015年年中開始在打擊敘利亞和伊拉克的伊斯蘭國分子的聯盟中發揮了更大的作用，並開始在國內系統地打擊伊斯蘭國力量。

土耳其副總理凱納克所說，在過去兩年裏，有7萬4千名來到土耳其以進入敘利亞並加入伊斯蘭國組織的外國人，被抓獲並遭到驅逐。