The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced 41 people arrested on the border with Syria, some of whom are members of the PKK and other banned groups in the country.
Turkish security authorities nabbed 41 people as they were attempting to cross into Syria and Greece illegally, the National Defense Ministry said on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reported.
The ministry said in a written statement that among them were two people affiliated with the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup in Turkey, and a member of a radical terror group, who was hunted internationally with red notice.
FETO and its US-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016, in which 251 people were martyred and 2,734 injured.
Ankara also accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.
Turkey considers the PKK to be a terrorist organization
