state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
It said
senior members of the group were among the 544 suspects held in operations
across 25 provinces, including the major western cities of Istanbul and Izmir.
Officials
from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) were among the 45 detained
in the southeastern province of Gaziantep, the provincial governor's said in a
statement.
The
government accuses the HDP, the second biggest opposition party in parliament,
of being a political extension of the PKK and many of its officials and MPs
have been remanded in custody on charges of such links.
The PKK,
designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union and United States,
launched an armed insurgency against the state in 1984 and more than 40,000
people have been killed in the conflict.
A ceasefire
between the PKK and the state broke down in July 2015 and thousands have been
killed in conflict since then.
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