A video released by the Dogan news agency showed two armoured police vehicles moving toward a row of houses as gunfire echoed in the background.
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It’s not clear if the operation was linked to suicide bombings at a peace rally in the capital Ankara earlier this month that killed 102 people.
Government officials warned last week that four suspected Islamic State militants had traveled from Syria to Turkey to carry out an attack.
An investigation into the identity of the second bomber is ongoing, Davutoglu reportedly said on Turkey’s AHaber TV, adding that 15 people were detained in connection with the attack, four of whom had been remanded to custody.
Seven militants were killed and 12 more were captured in that operation.
Bloodstained floors of two neighbouring apartments that police said militants used to store weapons.
Kurtulmus said authorities were trying to identify the dead militants and establish possible links to militants in other Turkish cities, and determine how many were Turkish and how many came from overseas.
News reports said the quartet was made up of three Turkish men and a German woman of Kazakh origin, and might be planning suicide attacks or a plane hijack.
Multiple houses were raided on Monday in the predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir.
Turkey pressed on with its “war on terror” on Tuesday, just five days before the country goes to the polls, detaining dozens of Islamic State suspects and hitting Kurdish rebels across the border in Syria.
Syrian Kurds accused Turkish forces of attacking two border towns over the weekend and on Monday, as tensions grow and the country’s president, Recip Tayyip Erdogan, increases hostilities against the Kurdish people.
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The U.S.-supported Kurdish militia, known as the YPG, said the Turkish military shot at its forces deployed in the town of Tal Abyad twice on Sunday, using mostly machine-guns.
