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Turkey:30 arrested in further raids

The raid, on a house in Diyarbakir city, in southeastern Turkey, triggered a clash that left two policemen and seven IS militants dead. Two police officers were killed and four others were injured when a bomb exploded outside the building where security forces were carrying out the raid, according to Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency.

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.

The authorities have declared the Islamic State group the number one suspect over the October 10 suicide bombings on a pro-Kurdish rally in Ankara that killed 102 people in the deadliest attack in the history of modern Turkey.

Turkey has time and again been blamed for being one of the main supporters of the militant groups operating in Syria, with reports saying that Ankara actively trains and arms the Takfiri militants there and facilitates their safe passage into the Arab country.

The attacks come amid increasing tensions in Turkey ahead of elections.

In an interview with A Haber television, Davutoglu said Turkey had warned members of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) not to cross to the west of the Euphrates river and if they did, Turkey would attack.

"U.S. officials have supported the Kurdish efforts to battle ISIS in northern Syria, though it has tried to be sensitive to Turkish concerns about the group, which has ties to Kurdish militants in Turkey who are considered terrorists by both Ankara and Washington".

Prosecutors had announced last Monday they were holding four people suspected of playing a role in the Ankara attack and said they had discovered a cache of suicide vests, Kalashnikovs and hand grenades suggesting there were plans for further bombings.

Turkish President Recip Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Monday to continue his fight against terrorism, referring to the IS Group, the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) and the Marxist DHKP-C.

Turkey admitted it fired on Kurdish forces in northern Syria over the weekend, a move that could stress that already fraught alliance between the United States and Turkey in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Authorities had previously said they were killed by a booby-trap when they entered the property in Kayapinar at around 3.20 p.m. (1220GMT) following a tip-off about Daesh cells preparing attacks.

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