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Turkish police detain more than 500 people in operations targeting PKK
[Ynet] Turkish police detained more than 500 people on Monday in operations across ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... targeting suspects linked with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) turban group, state-run Anadolu news agency reported. It said senior members of the group were among the 544 suspects held in operations across 25 provinces, including the major western cities of Istanbul and Izmir. Officials from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) were among the 45 detained in the southeastern province of Gaziantep, the provincial governor's said in a statement. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-02-15 |
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