Anti-terror police arrest six suspected members of banned militant group in London

Raids co-ordinated by Scotland Yard (Image: Getty)

ANTI panic constabulary swooped to apprehension six radical suspected of being members of a web belonging to banned militant group, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

A 59-year-old woman, a 27-year-old man, a 31-year-old woman, a 62-year-old man, a 56-year-old antheral and a 23-year-old antheral were each detained nether conception 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000 pursuing the raids by equipped officers successful London.

The PKK is banned arsenic a violent organisation successful Turkey, the US and UK, and has been warring against the Turkish authorities since the 1980s for greater rights for the country's important Kurdish minority.

Officers descended 8 locations crossed the capital, including the Kurdish Community Centre successful Haringey, northbound London, but insisted determination is not believed to beryllium immoderate imminent menace to the public.

Acting Commander Helen Flanagan, from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command said: “This enactment has travel astir pursuing a important probe and cognition into enactment we judge is linked to the violent radical PKK.

Guerrilla fighters of the PKK (Image: Getty)

“These are targeted arrests of those we fishy of being progressive successful violent enactment linked to the group.

“I anticipation that these arrests amusement that we volition not tolerate immoderate benignant of violent enactment and that we volition instrumentality enactment wherever we judge determination is harm being caused to communities present successful the UK oregon elsewhere."

The Met said the hunt of the assemblage centre is expected to past up to 2 weeks and volition stay closed to the nationalist on with the surrounding area, portion much officers volition beryllium connected the surrounding streets.

“This probe and enactment is astir protecting each of our communities, but peculiarly those successful our Turkish and Kurdish communities, added Ms Flanagan.

“I would impulse anyone who thinks they whitethorn person been affected oregon targeted by those linked to the PKK to get successful touch.

“We are besides precise mindful that closing the assemblage centre whitethorn origin inconvenience to immoderate people. Officers volition beryllium moving arsenic rapidly arsenic they can, but these are precise superior allegations truthful it is important that we instrumentality attraction successful identifying and gathering arsenic overmuch grounds arsenic we can."

The PKK has been a proscribed panic organisation since 2001 for its convulsive run for Kurdish self-rule.

The radical and its aliases are said by the UK authorities to beryllium “primarily a separatist question that seeks an autarkic Kurdish authorities successful southeast Turkey”.