"Ankara Bomb Attack Prompts Turkey to Detain 90 Suspected PKK Affiliates"

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Source: Al Jazeera English
"Ankara Bomb Attack Prompts Turkey to Detain 90 Suspected PKK Affiliates"
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Turkish police have detained 90 people with suspected links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and arrested 928 others for possessing illegal arms in a wide security crackdown following a suicide bomb attack in Ankara. The operations, involving thousands of security personnel, were carried out in 64 provinces across the country. The PKK claimed responsibility for the attack, which targeted the Turkish Ministry of Interior, and resulted in two police officers being wounded. In response, Turkey's warplanes conducted airstrikes on suspected PKK sites in northern Iraq.

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