Turkey arrests 928 suspects following Ankara bomb attack

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Tuesday that police conducted raids in 64 Turkish provinces, arresting people suspected of being part of “intelligence infrastructure” of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). About 13,400 security personnel participated in operations, the minister said in posts on the X social media platform, adding that more than 1,000 illegal weapons were seized.

Alzeera's Sinem Koseoglu said security forces were intended to arrest as many suspects as possible in operations.

This does not mean that all these people will be arrested. This is only the first” detention, she explained, reporting from Istanbul.

Koseoglu said the aim of the operation showed police had intensified the collection of information on PKK suspects. She added that Tuesday's raid centre is Sanliurfa, a large southeast town on the border with Syria, writes Aljazeera. com

The PKK has led a decades-long armed rebellion in Turkey and is considered an organisation <x0 terrorist” by the United States and the European Union. Tens of thousands of people have died since the start of the 1984 conflict.

On Sunday, a suicide bomber exploded an explosive vehicle near an entrance of the Turkish Interior Ministry, hours before President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was scheduled to address parliament as he returned from summer vacation.