Fifteen people had been taken into custody in Van's Hacıbekir (Xaçort) neighborhood following a series of house raids carried out by special operation police teams on 10 November.

The detainees, mostly made up of minors under 18, were referred to Van Courthouse on Tuesday evening.

Two among the detainees, including a sixteen year old minor, have been remanded in custody for allegedly “committing crime on behalf of an illegal organization”.