Turkey: Turkish authorities yesterday released three French nationals after they were briefly detained in the Kurdish-majority southeast over alleged ties to outlawed Kurdish militants, a judicial source said.
Security forces had earlier detained 16 suspects in an operation launched in the Beytussebap district of Sirnak province bordering Iraq to capture supporters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and its urban wing the KCK, the source said.
There were no further details on the identity of the freed foreign citizens, with the official Anadolu news agency reporting that one of them was a woman.
In another instance, five PKK terrorists have surrendered to Turkish security forces in Turkey’s southeastern Mardin and Sirnak provinces, the Turkish General Staff said in a statement.
Four terrorists, who had fled from PKK-harbouring areas in northern Iraq, turned themselves in to security forces on Wednesday in Silopi district of southeastern Sirnak province, the statement said.
The security sources also detonated an improvised explosive device in a controlled explosion in Guclukonak district of Sirnak province.
