State media: 52 Kurds detained in Turkey
Associated Press
2011-09-17 05:49 PM
Turkey's state-run television says police have detained 52 people in a crackdown on suspected Kurdish militants in the country's southeast.
TRT television says police on Saturday raided several homes and offices of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party in the towns of Sirnak and Cizre, close to the Iraqi border.
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