ISTANBUL
Istanbul police launched an anti-terror operation early Thursday in the city's Umraniye district targeting supporters of Daesh, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).
Anti-terror police raided 13 houses in the Inkilap neighborhood and seized a number of organizational documents, police said.
In another address in the city's Eyup district, police raided a house to find suspects engaged in arms smuggling.
One person was detained in the operation and police seized several weapons.
The early-morning raids came after police defused a bomb in Istanbul’s Okmeydani district late on Wednesday.
Police closed the road to traffic after an abandoned box on the street was thought to hold a bomb.
Two masked people left the box on Darulaceze Street, eyewitnesses said.
Bomb-disposal officers examined the box and found that it contained a drinks bottle and gas cylinder. A controlled explosion was carried out on the device.
Across the country, police have been carrying out anti-terror operations to apprehend suspected PKK, Daesh, and DHKP-C militants – all three are designated terrorist organizations in Turkey.
More than 1,300 people have been arrested in the wave of counter-terrorism raids.
