Police raids across nation after bombing attacks

Govt defiant as radical offshoot of the PKK claims responsibility

Turkish police detained nearly 200 officials of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, or HDP, on Monday over alleged links to Kurdish militants after deadly twin weekend blasts claimed by a radical Kurdish group.

The raids saw 198 HDP officials rounded up on suspicion of belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, or producing propaganda for the group, state news agency Anadolu said.