Counter-terrorism police have arrested six people and a community centre is temporarily closed as part of an investigation into the banned Kurdistan Workers Party. The group, known as the PKK, is classed as a terrorist organisation in the UK and the arrests came amid a “significant” police probe into potential terrorist activity.

The arrest on Wednesday afternoon was part of a counter-terrorism probe into the banned Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, police said.

UK police arrested eight people in London for "suspected activity" linked to the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, with protests later erupting.

As part of a counterterrorism investigation into suspected activities connected to the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), six people have been arrested in London.

The Metropolitan Police said two women, aged 59 and 31, and four men, aged 27, 62, 56 and 23, were arrested at separate addresses in the early hours of Wednesday. They have all been detained under the Terrorism Act and are in custody at a London police station.

Police officers surround a truck containing barriers that was being blocked from unloading by Kurdish people trying to stop them being used to block access to a road leading to a

Police and protesters have clashed in north London after seven people were arrested as part of a counter terrorism investigation. Five men and two women, aged between 23 and 62, were arrested after an investigation into suspected activity linked to the banned Kurdistan Workers Party,