An operation against the DEAŞ terror organization was launched from Kahramanmaraş and spread across eight provinces. Officers took 39 suspects into custody during the coordinated raids. Judges went on to issue arrest orders, formally detaining 22 of those held in pretrial custody. The others remain part of the investigation as it moves through the legal process. DEAŞ is the Turkish government's name for the Islamic State group. Raids of this scale usually follow weeks of surveillance by counterterrorism units and are executed simultaneously to catch suspects off guard. The eight provinces involved show how far the network stretched that Turkish police were tracking.