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The Grand Turk
Turkish forces crackdown on Kurdish group near Syrian border
2018-10-10
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish security forces launched a big operation this morning to arrest several suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
According to the state-owned Anadolu Agency, the Ottoman Turkish security forces locked away
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
 at least 90 suspected members of the PKK organization in southeast Turkey.

Citing the Interior Ministry, the Anadolu report said that of the 90 arrests made in the last 12 hours, at least 80 of them were made in the Diyarbakir Province near the Syrian border.

The other arrests reportedly took place in the Mersin, Van, Sirnak, Sanliurfa, Batman and Mardin provinces.

Many terror group-related documents and digital material were seized during the operations.
Al Ahram adds:
The operation across eight provinces was continuing, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

The arrests come days after President Tayyip Erdogan warned he would replace any mayors elected in next year's local elections if they were deemed to have links to terrorism.

Erdogan accuses the main pro-Kurdish party, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), of links to the PKK. The HDP denies this and says it is unjustly targeted by the government.

More than 140 HDP members were tossed into the calaboose over several days, the party said on Sunday.

Ninety-four of 102 municipalities in Kurdish-majority cities and towns are now administered by trustees, rather than their elected mayors. Authorities removed those mayors, elected in the last municipal elections in 2014, in the security crackdown that followed an attempted military coup in 2016.

"Elections are nearing," Erdogan said at a meeting of his AK Party (AKP) over the weekend, referring to the March 2019 local vote. "If those involved with terror come out of the ballot box, we shall appoint trustees without delay."
And from An Nahar:
Ottoman Turkish police detained dozens of people over alleged links to Kurdish bandidos bandidos turbans in an operation carried out in nine cities including Kurdish-majority Diyarbakir, the local prosecutor's office said Tuesday.

The police detained 90 out of 151 suspects they were seeking during the raids carried out at 183 addresses, and seized organizational documents and digital materials, the chief prosecutor's office in Diyarbakir said in a statement.

The suspects were accused of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), designated as a terror group by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor....
 and its Western allies.

Last week, eight Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed by an improvised bomb in southeastern Turkey in an attack which the government blamed on the PKK.

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