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Turkey Detains Female PKK Militant at Istanbul Airport
[AlAhram] Turkish security forces on Thursday detained a female myrmidon member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) at Istanbul airport on suspicion of planning an attack in the city, the state-run Anadolu news agency said.The woman, identified as Ebru Firat, was detained following a tip-off after she flew into the city's Ataturk airport, the agency said. It said the woman, whose code name was "Amara", could have come to the city to stage an attack. The agency said the woman had in the past been photographed next to Murat Karayilan, one of the PKK's top leaders in northern Iraq. The pro-government Sabah daily said Firat were tossed into the calaboose after arriving on a flight from Diyarbakir in the Kurdish-dominated southeast and had been planning a suicide kaboom in Istanbul. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-09-11 |
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