Turkish authorities have detained three Russian citizens on suspicion of links with the Islamic State (ISIS), reported Turkey's Dogan News Agency. This comes a day after a suspected ISIS bombing in Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet on Tuesday square left 10 people dead. Turkish police raided the suspects' residence in the Turkish Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya and seized CD's and documents. The terrorist attack in Istanbul seemed to have been aimed at hurting Turkey's tourism economy, which has already suffered as a result of the fallout between Russia and Turkey over the shooting down of a Russian warplane over the Syrian-Turkish border last November 24. One of the pretexts Russia has given for its military intervention in Syria is to combat some Russian nationals and others from the Caucasus who joined Islamist groups like ISIS who they fear will return to Russia and carry out terrorist attacks there.
