MADRID 11 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Turkish Government announced this Saturday that almost 150 people have been arrested during a ten-day operation against sympathizers of the armed group of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), classified by Ankara as a terrorist organization.
The Turkish Interior Minister, Ali Yerlikaya, has specified a total of 147 detainees in operations carried out in 41 provinces of the country.
Of those detained, 30 have been accused of crimes related to terrorism and 17 have ended up under house arrest, according to the Minister of the Interior.
The suspects are accused of being “actively involved” in the activities of the PKK, of providing financial support to the group, of participating in its youth structure and of propagandizing in its favor on social networks, Yerlikaya said on his Instagram account. social network
Turkey and the PKK have been locked in a historic conflict for decades that has spread to Iraq and Syria, where the armed group maintains positions that have been subject to bombing by the Turkish Army and associated militias.
The leader of the organization, Abdullah Ocalan, offered at the end of the year from prison his support for any peace effort to end the long and bloody armed conflict at a key moment such as the end of the war in Syria, and after 40 years of hostilities that have left 40,000 dead.