President Erdogan has widened his crackdown on Turkey’s political opposition a week after Kurdish terrorists killed seven people at a defence industry facility in Ankara.
Ahmet Ozer, the mayor of the Istanbul district of Esenyurt and a member of the non-Kurdish opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), was detained in a dawn raid on his home on Wednesday. He is accused of contacting the PKK, a Kurdish militia that has been fighting an insurgency in southeastern Turkey since the 1980s.
The PKK claimed responsibility for the attack on the headquarters of Turkish Aerospace Industries near Ankara, the capital, on October 23. A man and a woman arrived by taxi and used explosives and rifles to launch their assault. They were named as Ali Orek and Mine
