Turkey detains 15 al-Qaida suspects
Turkish police on Tuesday detained 15 people on suspicion of links to the al-Qaida terror network, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
The suspects were detained in simultaneous police raids in the central Anatolian city of Konya, according to the report.
State-run TRT television said they were suspected al-Qaida members but gave no other details. Police would not comment.
Earlier this year, Turkish police arrested a group accused of planning to attack the US embassy in Ankara and another group in the southern city of Adana, which is home to the Incirlik Air Base used by the United States to transfer noncombat supplies to Iraq and Afghanistan. Authorities have said al-Qaida planned to attack Incirlik in the past but was deterred by high security.
Turkish authorities have said dozens of radical militants have received training in the ranks of al-Qaida in Afghanistan.
Editor: Bi Mingxin
English.news.cn 2011-11-22 21:09:33 FeedbackPrintRSS
ANKARA, Nov. 22 (Xinhua)
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