Monday, March 3, 2008

Orange Revolution in Turkey

Turkish police foiled plot to kill PM Erdogan
11.03.2008 14:37 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish law enforcers detained three terrorists plotting the murder of Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

During the search, the police found 35 kg of ammonium nitrate used in production of explosive assemblies, a Kalashnikov gun, a Beretta pistol and remote control devices stuffed with explosives.

The terrorists were planning to blast Erdogan’s car and then fire upon the motorcade, Bakililar.az reports.

Turkish police foiled alleged plot to bomb U.S. companies
10.03.2008 15:27 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish police have foiled an alleged plot to bomb U.S. companies in the country.

Police arrested three suspects belonging to a leftist militant group during a raid in Istanbul. Authorities seized a remote-controlled toy car allegedly being prepared to be used in a bombing.

Police also seized a list of U.S. companies that the DHKP-C group was targeting, including Coca Cola, Pepsi and Citibank.

The DHKP-C is listed as a terror group by the U.S. and EU, and has been active since the 1970s, The Associated Press reports.


Pro-Kurdish riot dispersed in Istanbul
03.03.2008 17:23 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish riot police disperse pro-Kurdish demonstrators with truncheons in downtown Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, March 2, 2008, during a protest against Turkey’s cross-border ground incursion into northern Iraq, the AP reports.

Police in Istanbul has battled hundreds of supporters of a pro-Kurdish party who chanted slogans praising separatist Kurdish rebels during a protest denouncing Turkey’s recent incursion into Iraq. Police used water canons and tear gas to disperse some 400 members of the Democratic Society Party, which is frequently accused of links to the rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. No casualties are reported

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