Ebrahim Kalin, spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, also said on Monday that Turkish profiling teams have interviewed 9,500 people upon their arrival in Turkey. Some 2,000 of them were denied entry.
He says some 2,770 suspects, including 232 foreigners, have been caught in police sweeps and 954 of them are being prosecuted, AP reported.
Turkey, long accused of turning a blind eye to the extremists crossing into Syria, has now taken a larger role in the fight against Daesh. Four deadly bomb attacks in Turkey since July have been blamed on Daesh.