Six arrested by counter-terror police over suspected activity linked to proscribed group PKK

Six radical person been arrested successful London arsenic portion of a counter-terrorism probe into suspected enactment linked to the proscribed radical 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 person been detained nether conception 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Police said 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. 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."

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