Turkey arrests Kurds, hits militants after bombings

Turkey arrested nearly 200 officials from a pro-Kurdish party and struck Kurdish militants in Iraq yesterday in response to this weekend’s twin bombings claimed by a radical Kurd separatist group. The toll from Saturday’s attacks, which struck an Istanbul football stadium and a nearby park, rose to 44 yesterday, Health Minister Recep Akdag said. Turkish jets pounded targets in northern Iraq, with the military saying it had hit “separatist terrorist organization members”, referring to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).