Turkey said on Monday that it conducted raids targeting PKK-linked suspects in Istanbul and launched air strikes on militant targets in northern Iraq
Turkey said it unleashed air strikes on militant targets in northern Iraq and detained suspects in Istanbul overnight, hours after Kurdish militants said they orchestrated the first bomb attack in the capital Ankara in years., leaving them both dead and wounding two police officers. The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party militant group claimed responsibility.
The PKK is designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and European Union. It launched an insurgency in southeast Turkey in 1984 and more than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict. One attacker was identified as a PKK member and work was continuing on identifying the other one, an interior ministry statement said, adding that explosives, grenades, a rocket launcher and various guns were seized at the scene.
A provincial Kurdish spokesman and district heads of a large pro-Kurdish political party were among those detained, suspected of collecting aid and providing shelter for PKK members, Yerlikaya said on messaging platform X.
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