"Turkey arrests 69 over links to Kurdish rebels
(AFP)
13 February 2010,
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - Turkish police Saturday arrested 69 people suspected of links with Kurdish separatist rebels in operations in eight provinces in the southeast and east of the country, security sources said.
They said the swoop was aimed to prevent feared demonstrations marking Monday’s 11th anniversary of the arrest of the head of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan."
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