590 detainees in continuing Turkish anti-terror raids


Saturday, July 25th 2015

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Hundreds of ISIL, PKK, and DHKP-C suspects have been detained in Istanbul and nationwide

On Saturday, police operations took place in Istanbul, Adana, Adiyaman, Izmir, Konya, Ankara, Manisa, Kocaeli, Tunceli, Erzincan, and Sanliurfa provinces.
Turkish police have pursued anti-terror operations Saturday for the second day in a row of its nationwide anti-terror operation.
Turkish police have detained a total of 590 people, including at least 37 foreigners, suspected of having ties with terrorist groups across Turkey, said Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu Saturday.
The nationwide anti-terror operation comes days after 32 people were killed in the southeastern Turkish Province of Sanliurfa on Monday in a ISIL-suspected suicide attack.
Following the attack, four Turkish police officers were killed in various attacks.
On Friday night and early hours of Saturday, Turkish Air Forces bombed for the first time in last two-and-a- half years PKK camps in northern Iraq. Turkey also launched attacks for the second day against ISIL.

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