India condemns terrorist attack in Turkish town

The suspects, all males, were detained in the province’s Ceylanpinar district.

A police crackdown against Daesh, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the far-left Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) swept the country early Friday morning.

It is not yet clear how many people were arrested in the Istanbul operation, which also involved helicopters.

Separately, Turkey’s semiofficial Anadolu news agency reported Wednesday that the suspect’s name was Seyh Abdurrahman Alagoz.

As a result of the terrorist attack in Suruc on July 20, at least 32 people were killed and almost 100 were wounded, said the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus. The deadly bombing was reportedly claimed by ISIL. Ankara, however, denies the claim.

But the PKK, which is blacklisted by Turkey and the EU, accused the Turkish moderate Islamist AK Party government of tolerating or even supporting IS.

Another policeman was killed in the majority Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Thursday.

The blast on Monday tore through a group of student-activists as they gathered in the border town of Suruc ahead of a planned trip to help rebuild the nearby Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, a Reuters news report said.

Thousands of foreign fighters have crossed through Turkey to join Islamic State over the past few years, fuelling accusations from the government’s opponents that it is turning a blind eye, it said.