Reuters. Turkish counterterrorism police detained 20 people early on Monday (October 2) in raids targeting people with alleged links to Kurdish militants, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said, after a bomb attack in Ankara a day earlier.
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 the members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) members, Yerlikaya said on messaging platform X.
On Sunday morning (October 1), two attackers detonated a bomb near government buildings in Ankara, killing them both and wounding two police officers.
The PKK, designated a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, later claimed responsibility for the attack.
The bomb on Ataturk Boulevard was the first in Ankara since 2016, when there was a spate of attacks in Turkish cities claimed by Kurdish militants, Islamic State and other groups.
