News Center- Turkish police and gendarmerie conducted dawn house raids in the city of Van and its districts on Monday.

At least 30 people have been taken into custody, according to the local reports. The number of detained people may rise to 60, lawyers in the city said. The reasons for their detention and accusations against them are still unknown while the detained people were transferred to the Van Police Department.

The names of some detained people are: Can Gören, Erol Sarı, Mesut Üçer, İsmet Yakut, Vedat Balık, Diyar Aslan, Cevzet Yücel, Dilgeş Aslan, Ümit Çobanhan, Kenan İldeniz, Kadir Üçer, Abdulkadir Akdağ, Şahin Öztürk, Bulut Kaynak, Azat Kaya and Özgür Duman.