Turkey’s Interior Ministry published a 76-page report this week that purports to document its fight against the Islamic State, part of an apparent effort to counter widespread if unjustified claims that it's doing the opposite: enabling the militants. The document’s publication coincided with a series of fresh raids on suspected IS terrorists across the country.

The first section of the report, which is accompanied by an English-language translation, rehashes the origins of the terror outfit and does little to enhance existing literature on the subject. There is also a whiff of spin in some of its references to IS depictions of Turks and their relationship to Islam as “heathens” and “apostates.” The report, by Turkey’s undeniably authoritarian government, declares, “They deem living and voting in a democratic country as infidelity.”

But the latter sections of the report provide useful chronology and data on the number of IS attacks in Turkey, as well as the sorts of measures the Turkish authorities are now taking. The very real threat IS poses to the country was most recently and gorily manifested in the January attack on the Reina nightclub in Istanbul that claimed 39 lives.

It wasn’t until March 2015 that Turkish authorities began to properly crack down on IS networks inside Turkey, arresting scores of individuals accused of supporting the terrorist group. The same year, Turkey formally joined the military campaign against IS and last August, Turkish troops intervened in Syria, driving IS out of the areas it controlled along the Turkish border and pushing further south to the city of al-Bab, another IS stronghold. The intervention came at a heavy price, with over 70 Turkish soldiers killed in those operations. In December, two Turkish soldiers held captive by IS were burned alive in retaliation, their gruesome executions captured in a video that was then circulated by the jihadis. The Interior Ministry report makes no mention of the grisly affair.