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Police detained eight suspected al Qaeda operatives in Bursa and two more in the capital of Istanbul. The men are accused of plotting to carry out New Years attacks in Turkey.

The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks, a faction of the Kurdistan Workers Party, claimed it carried out the Oct. 31 suicide attck in Istanbul that wounded 32 people. “We as TAK claim responsibility for the action carried out against the police force of Turkish fascism at Istanbul’s Taksim Square,” the groups said in a statement released on […]

The Union of Communities in Kurdistan denied that its ally, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) carried out yesterday’s suicide attack in Istanbul that wounded 15 policemen and 17 civilians. The PKK is the primary suspect in the suicide attack.

A suicide bomber at a central square in Istanbul wounded 15 police officers and 17 civilians. A second, undetonated bomb was found near the attack. Authorities believe the radical Kurdistan Workers Party carried out the attack, as a truce with the group expired today.

Security forces detained five members of an al Qaeda cell in Izmir in western Turkey. The cell was supporting al Qaeda operations in Afghanistan, and included fundraisers and a computer programmer who was attempting to jam NATO UAV signals.