A dozen foreign nationals were among 14 suspected ISIS supporters arrested in a southern Turkish town a few kilometers from the Syrian border on Saturday, local officials said.

A statement from the governor's office of Kilis province did not identify the foreigners by nationality but said they were arrested by security forces in the town of Elbeyli.

The suspects were given a medical examination before being handed over to the gendarmerie, the military body responsible for policing rural areas. More than 70 suspected ISIS supporters were detained in Kilis province in August.

Ankara has shown its position in the fight against ISIS within the country by being one of the earliest countries that recognized the organization as a terrorist group in October 2013 and identifying and delivering potential foreign fighters trying to cross the border to Syria to join ISIS despite little cooperation in intelligence sharing from Western allies. According to figures given by presidential spokesman İbrahim Kalın on Aug. 5, Turkey had detained 500 ISIS-linked suspects, expelled 1,600 suspected foreigners and banned the entry of 15,000 others into the country, adding that the claim that Turkey was not fighting ISIS was "simply not true." Police have been carrying out nationwide operations to apprehend suspected militants of the PKK, ISIS and the far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), all of which are listed as terrorist groups by Turkey.