According to Turkish sources, police carried out raids on about 20 offices and homes in Istanbul, Ankara, Diyarbakir and about 20 other towns and cities on Monday, a Press TV correspondent reported.
The operation focused on members of the Kurdish Communities Union (KCK), a union regarded by the authorities in Ankara as the political wing of the terrorist PKK.
Ankara says the KCK wants to replace Turkish government institutions in the southeastern Anatolia region, which is majority Kurd, with its own political structures.
Turkey launched massive operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party in October after the group killed 24 Turkish security forces in Hakkari Province, near the Iraqi border.
Tens of thousands of people have lost their lives since PKK terrorists launched an armed campaign against Ankara in 1984 in the quest to form an independent Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community including Turkey, Iran, the European Union, and the United States.
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