Around half of those detained have been formally arrested for links to the coup attempt when rogue troops attacked state institutions in a bid to overthrow the government.
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Turkish officials said at least 14 people were killed and about 300 wounded in the attacks, which also hit Van in the far east near the Iranian border on Wednesday and the south-eastern town of Bitlis on Thursday.
The PKK statement claimed that the Elazig bombing alone left 105 police officers dead and 155 wounded.
“You don’t have to be fortune teller to see that the FETO is behind the latest PKK attacks in terms of sharing information and intelligence”, Erdogan said.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused followers of a USA -based Islamic cleric he blames for last month’s coup attempt of being complicit in attacks by Kurdish militants in Turkey’s southeast which killed 10 people.
Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have detained dozens at Turkey’s banking regulatory agency and at one of Istanbul’s largest universities as part of an investigation into the July 15 abortive coup which killed over 270 people.
The PKK – listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US and European Union – resumed its 30-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in July 2015. The soldiers were returning from a clash between army forces and PKK – the Kurdistan Workers’ Party that Ankara has been fighting for decades.
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The Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim accused Fethullah Gülen of orchestrating the failed coup in Turkey last month.
