[ADN Kronos] Three top-level officials from a pro-Kurdish political party were among 46 people arrested on Tuesday in a nationwide police operation across Turkey. Raids were conducted in 12 Turkish provinces targeting alleged militants from the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).Turkish anti-terror police detained the 46 suspects and raided the offices of the Democratic Society Party (DSP), as well as the headquarters of local TV station GUN in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, Turkey's Hurriyet said.
DTP leaders Bayram Altun and Kamuran Yuksek were among those detained by police.
Tuesday's operation, which had reportedly been planned for a year, aimed to expose those with links to the PKK within the DTP, said Hurriyet quoting an unnamed judicial source.
The PKK is committed to the creation of an independent Kurdish state in a geographical region comprising parts of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran.
Blacklisted as a terrorist organisation by the European Union and the United States, the PKK began its campaign for self-rule in Turkey's southeast in 1984, triggering a conflict that has claimed an estimated 44,000 lives.