The suspects were among the 10 people detained over Monday's massacre linked to a clan feud in the small village of Bilge in Mardin province, provincial governor Hasan Duruer told the agency.

He did not give any other details.

Security forces also detained two other suspects who were on the run after the attack, the agency reported, without citing sources.

In what experts said was the blodiest killing linked to a blood feud, masked assailants entered the village square from different directions late Monday just after a Muslim preacher had completed the wedding ceremony, and opened fire on the crowd, witnesses told AFP.

The assailants then stormed several houses, continuing to shoot, they said.

The bride, the groom, his parents and four-year-old sister as well as the village's imam were all killed in the attack, authorities and witnesses said.

Six children and 15 other women, three of them pregnant, were among the dead.

In an emotional ceremony Tuesday, relatives began burying some of the dead in rows of graves dug out by mechanical diggers.

Blood feuds are frequent in Turkey's Kurdish-populated regions, where feudal traditions are strong, illiteracy is high and many see the gun as a legitimate tool to settle scores.