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Aksu: 15,000 Hizbullah members arrested in 7 years

Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu said that 15,000 suspects had been
arrested over the last seven years on grounds of affiliation with Hizbullah.

Aksu said some 15,000 Hizbullah members, including its leaders had
been arrested during raids carried out particularly in southeastern
Anatolian city of Diyarbakir. "Security officials have never used any
outlawed organization or group to counter another terrorist organization,"
stated Aksu. A number of large-scale operations were carried out after the
Istanbul Kavacik Operation in which Hezbollah leader Huseyin Velioglu was
killed in 2000, Aksu said, adding: "In Diyarbakir alone 2,845 Hizbullah
members were brought to justice. Hizbullah, an extreme terrorist
organization centered mainly in southeastern Turkey, was claimed to have
been used by the state against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
for many years and was associated with dead bodies buried in basements in
the late '90s.