Turkey detains nearly 1000, following suicide bomb attack
Tuesday, 3 October 2023 Police detained almost a thousand people in raids across Turkiye on Tuesday, including dozens with alleged links to Kurdish militants, days after a suicide bomb attack in the Turkish capital. Police detained at least 67 people across Turkiye on Tuesday in a sweep targeting people with alleged links to Kurdish militants.
A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device near the interior ministry building in the Turkish capital Ankara on Sunday. A second assailant was “neutralised” following the bomb which wounded two police officers.
The two attackers arrived in a commercial vehicle and carried out the...