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Turkish security forces investigating the urban arm of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party raided over 100 locations in 16 cities and detained 32 suspects. Police discovered a cache of explosives near the Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadium.

A Danish court fined the owners of the Danish-based Kurdish television station Roj TV after finding them guilty of promoting terrorism and being financed and controlled by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. The deputy commander of a regiment linked to an airstrike that killed scores of Kurdish civilians in northern Iraq was removed from his post.

Turkey’s prime minister vowed to continue the fight against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party but acknowledged the need to “learn lessons” from the airstrike in northern Iraq that killed 35 villagers. The National Intelligence Organization denied it shared intelligence with the Turkish General Staff that led to the errant airstrike.

Turkey’s air force attacked what it thought were Kurdish rebel targets near the country’s border with Iraq, killing 35 people, but officials later admitted that those killed were probably smugglers mistaken for guerrillas. Turkish officials called the incident an “unfortunate operational accident.”

Turkish police and security forces moved in with armored tanks and infantry against 17 locations in the southeastern town of Gaziantep and arrested 13 al Qaeda suspects. Turkish officials broke up another suspected al Qaeda cell on Dec. 14, when six suspects were arrested in Manisa province.