Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Turkish police arrest more than 40 Kurds suspected of links to PKK : Middle East World

"Turkish police arrest more than 40 Kurds suspected of links to PKK

Ankara - Turkish anti-terrorism police on Tuesday targeted members of Turkey's
main Kurdish party taking into custody more than 40 people on suspicion of having links with the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), the Anadolu news agency reported. In an operation that had been planned for more than a year, police raided homes and offices in 13 provinces across Turkey in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Those taken into custody included three deputy chairmen of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) and three lawyers for the imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan."

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