PARIS ATTACKS: Link between Istanbul Islamic State militants arrested in Turkey and Paris attacks

Suspected Islamic State militants who were arrested in raids in Istanbul last week were in contact with the extremists behind the Paris terror attacks, according to a Turkish security official.

The group in Turkey, who were detained before the Paris attacks, include a man believed to be associated with Mohammed Emwazi, the Islamic State militant known as ‘Jihadi John’.

The suspects were detained in a raid on a luxury villa in the Istanbul suburb of Silivri on Thursday.