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Turkey detains 15 in raids targeting Kurdish militant group
[Ynet] Turkish police detained 15 suspects in an operation involving raids across the southeastern province of Adana targeting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) bad boy group, the state-run Anadolu Agency said on Sunday.

The raids come as fighting between security forces and PKK holy warriors in the largely Kurdish southeast has escalated to new heights since the collapse of a 2-1/2-year ceasefire between the state and the bad boy group in July of last year.

On Friday, a boom-mobile in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir killed 11 people and maimed at least 100, hours after Turkish authorities detained the leaders and politician of the main pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), whom the government accuses of links to the PKK.
Separately, An Nahar updates with the latest claim of responsibility for Friday's bombing in Diyarbakir:
A bomb attack in Diyarbakir on Friday left 11 people dead, with Turkey saying it was the work of the PKK and then Amaq news agency, affiliated to Islamic State (IS) extremists, claiming it for the jihadists.

But on Sunday the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), a splinter group of the better-known PKK and behind several deadly strikes this year, said the bombing was a suicide attack carried out by one of its militants.
Posted by: trailing wife 2016-11-07
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