Turkey nabs 114 in PKK operation across country

Security forces in Turkey arrested 114 people across the country on Feb. 15 over their alleged links to the PKK terror group.

The arrests come in the wake of the PKK execution in northern Iraq of 13 Turkish citizens held captive for six years, an incident that shocked the nation.

Prosecutors in the eastern Ağrı province launched an investigation into 13 suspects named by others previously arrested for PKK links.

A local gendarmerie team arrested 12 suspects on charges of assisting an armed terror group.

Six other suspects who allegedly spread PKK propaganda over social media were also held by the counter-terrorism police in simultaneous operations in the northwestern Balıkesir province.

A Balıkesir-based operation carried out simultaneously in 20 provinces resulted in the arrests of 37 suspects for financing the terror group members.

Multiple weapons and documents related to the organization were seized by the police, while another operation was launched to round up nine more suspects.

Seven more suspects were arrested in an operation in the Aegean Izmir province after local prosecutors issued arrest warrants for four suspects over terror group membership, and six others for spreading PKK propaganda.

Efforts to arrest three remaining suspects are underway.

In the eastern province of Elazığ, three more suspects were arrested by police for spreading PKK propaganda.

Three other suspects were arrested for making propaganda favoring the terror group in the Adana province on the Mediterranean coast.

In the northwestern Ardahan province, anti-terror teams arrested three suspects for allegedly spreading PKK propaganda on social media.

Separately, seven suspects were arrested in the western...

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