French police on Monday detained 13 Turkish Kurds suspected of helping finance the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), police officials said. Investigators have opened a judicial inquiry into whether the suspects have links to terrorist financing.
Seperatist PKK is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
Police seized small sums of cash during the arrests, which took place in the suspects' homes in suburbs all around Paris, according to the Paris regional police headquarters. Investigators had been watching the suspects since July, when two Kurds were arrested in Paris trying to exchange € 200,000 (US$ 260,000) in cash.
The 13 were seized in the Paris region departments of Yvelines, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val d'Oise, as part of an investigation headed by France's top anti-terrorist judge, Jean-Louis Bruguiere.
Turkey is pressing the EU and the United States to crack down on PKK that operates out of bases in northern Iraq and demands more autonomy. The conflict has claimed the lives of 37,000 people since the guerrillas took up arms in 1984.
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