Turkey hits Kurdish militant targets in Iraq and detains about 1,000 people days after Ankara blast

By SUZAN FRASER and ROBERT BADENDIECK
Associated Press

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish warplanes have carried out new airstrikes against suspected Kurdish militant sites in northern Iraq days after a suicide bomb attack in the Turkish capital. Police meanwhile, detained almost a thousand people in raids across Turkey on Tuesday, including dozens with alleged links to Kurdish militants. The interior minister said police carried out raids in 16 Turkish provinces, detaining 55 people suspected of being part of the “intelligence structure” of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. Twelve other suspects were rounded up in a separate operation in five provinces. A 73-year-old news anchor was also detained Tuesday after questioning details of the official account of the attack on opposition broadcaster Halk TV.