Turkish police News

Special forces police launched the operation at the house in the Meram district of Konya, in central Turkey, at 5:15 am (0215 GMT) because they believed the militant cell was planning an attack, the agency said.

Turkey has increased scrutiny of Russian-speaking Muslim communities in the past few months following a series of attacks blamed on Islamic State, a concrete example of the renewed relationship between the two countries.

Turkish police have detained more than 600 people over alleged links to Kurdish militants in the past two days, state media said on Tuesday, a crackdown the pro-Kurdish parliamentary party said was aimed at sidelining it ahead of an April referendum.

An armed police officer receiving psychiatric treatment caused panic on Wednesday when he barricaded himself in a room at an Istanbul hospital and attempted to commit suicide, the media reported.

At least 600 revellers were celebrating the New Year at Istanbul's Reina nightclub when a gunman struck by firing indiscriminately.

Followers of the cleric Turkey blames for orchestrating a failed coup this year are still active in the armed forces, judiciary and police, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, as he vowed to continue to root them out.

Turkish police detained 45 air force pilots and were to take in dozens more on Thursday in the latest in a stream of police operations relating to investigations into a failed coup by rogue military in July, the state-run news agency Anadolu said.

Prosecutors issued 187 arrest warrants as part of the operation in the country's economic capital of Istanbul and other provinces, CNN-Turk reported.

Turkish police detained 28 people over links to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan`s archfoe, US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen. In the latest crackdown, police carried out simultaneous raids in several cities including Istanbul as well as Konya and Kayseri in central Anatolia.

On May 1 last year, Turkish police used water cannon and tear gas to disperse May Day protesters in Istanbul.

Turkish police on Monday detained at least 105 people in a new wave of raids on suspected supporters of US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, arch foe of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reports said.

Turkish police killed two female "terrorists" in a pre-dawn raid om Tuesday on a cell of suspected militants in Istanbul, media reports said. 

Turkey is imposing tight security ahead of the Group of 20 summit in the Mediterranean resort of Antalya which will bring together a host of leaders including US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Turkish police detained about 30 people on Tuesday in a raid against suspected Islamic State militants in the central city of Konya, Dogan News Agency reported.

The two suspects were detained after Twitter provided information on users of the accounts, a government official said, adding that the two have ties to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which is fighting Turkey's security forces.

Turkish police today detained the editor of a leading English-language daily newspaper on suspicion of "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a series of tweets.

 Three policemen were killed by Kurdish militants on Sunday in two separate attacks in Turkey`s southeast, security sources said, as the authorities imposed new curfews in the battle against the rebels.