Ahmet Dahmani, 26, was held at a luxury hotel in the southern coastal city of Antalya, where world leaders had been meeting days earlier at the G20 summit, the Dogan news agency said.
The report said two other men, both Syrians, were also detained on a nearby road on suspicion that they had been sent by Islamic State to ensure Dahmani's safe passage across the border.
Counter-terrorism police first became aware of Dahmani - a Belgian man of Moroccan origin - when he arrived on a flight to Antalya and tracked him to the hotel in the Manavgat district of the city, Dogan said.
Separately, Turkey deported a group of Moroccans detained at Istanbul's main airport this week over suspected links to IS.
The eight, who said they had arrived at Ataturk airport on Tuesday night from Casablanca for a holiday, were detained by border police and questioned by profiling experts who flagged them as suspected militants, a government official said.
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