Turkey detains nearly 1000, including alleged Kurdish militants, following suicide bomb attack
- Turkish police detained at least 67 people with alleged links to Kurdish militants and arrested an additional 928 people suspected of holding unlicensed firearms or being connected to firearms smuggling during a nationwide operation.
- The detentions come after a suicide bomb attack in the Turkish capital, Ankara, carried out by the Kurdistan Workers' Party . The attack resulted in the deaths of two police officers and injuries to others.
- The PKK, considered a terror organization by the United States and the European Union, has led a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish government, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths. The detentions and airstrikes on suspected PKK sites in northern Iraq reflect Turkey's ongoing efforts to combat the group.
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Turkish security forces are conducting a large-scale special operation in 64 provinces of the country after the terrorist attack in Ankara.
Turkish police on Tuesday detained 145 people suspected of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), authorities said, two days after a bomb attack in Ankara claimed by the militant group, AFP and Reuters reported.
Turkiye detains 20 after Ankara bombing
Security forces in Turkiye have detained twenty people suspected of having links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which claimed responsibility for Sunday’s suicide bombing outside the interior ministry’s headquarters in the capital, Ankara. According to Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya on Monday, more than two dozen “operations” were carried out in Istanbul and Kirklareli, a city in Turkiye’s far north-west. Weapons and ammunition were seiz…
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