ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's state-run news agency says police have rounded up dozens of people in a nationwide crackdown on alleged supporters of a Kurdish rebel group.
The Anadolu Agency reports some 100 people were detained in raids in at least nine cities on Monday.
It said police were also searching the offices of at least three trade unions in the capital Ankara.
Anadolu says the detentions are related to an ongoing probe into a Kurdish group which prosecutors accuse of links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which is fighting for autonomy in the country’s largely Kurdish southeast.
Hundreds of people, including some elected Kurdish mayors and human rights activists, have been arrested as part of the probe that first began in 2009.
