Police have raided a number of houses in Edinburgh with possible links to the terrorist group the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)

No arrests were made and the investigation is continuing.

The PKK has Marxist-Leninist roots and was created in a bid to form an independent Kurdish state within Turkey.

A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “On Wednesday, Police Scotland executed search warrants at a number of addresses in the Edinburgh area in connection with an ongoing investigation

 

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John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.