It said 66 home-made explosives with remote control set-ups, suicide vests, two firearms and many bullets were confiscated from the motorcycle and the car.
"It seems that the arrested suspects were planning a massacre during Republic Day. The police did a wonderful job otherwise a lot of blood would have been spilled again," said security analyst Abdullah Agar during an interview to the 24 TV channel.
"Such attacks aim to divide the society where it is planned, to create havoc, chaos and a state of panic among the population," indicated Agar, warning that there is still many risks from IS towards Turkey, and Turks should be very careful.
In a series of new details about this major crackdown, the police told the Anadolu Agency that the arrested suspects were planning no less than four suicide attacks in Istanbul on the same day, aiming to kill dozens of civilians who were chanting and demonstrating in the streets of the metropolis.
According to sources quoted by Anadolu Agency and the local press, the jihadists also planned to attack a shopping mall to carry out a massacre with suicide vests.
Thousands of foreign IS supporters have returned to their home countries after leaving Syria and Iraq over the past two years, especially last weeks.
Last week, the New York-based Soufan Center, an American NGO dealing with security matters, published a report, saying that at least 5,600 people from 33 countries left IS-held areas since two years, with the number increasing as the group began to suffer territorial losses. Some 900 of them have returned to Turkey, according to this report.
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