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| Turkish Press Scan |
| 2003-12-22 |
| These are some of the major headlines and their brief stories in Turkey’s press on December 22, 2003. AL-QAIDA NOT INCLUDED IN LIST OF TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS Directorate General of Security Anti-Terrorism Department has prepared a list of ten fundamentalist terrorist organizations acting in Turkey. The al-Qaida terrorist network, which is believed to have been responsible for the quadruple suicide attacks in Istanbul in November, was not included in the list. grumble... Al-Qaida funds them, trains them, approves attacks, but because they don’t have a storefront with it’s name on the front, you don’t put them on the list... grumble Meanwhile, Directorate General of Security has sent a document to all public institutions saying that the terrorist organization of PKK/KADEK had ordered its militant to stage acts of violence in some provinces. Still more worried about the Kurds. FIRST BULLET, THEN BOMB Celal Yayla, member of illegal DHKP-C organization, explained assassination plans against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He said that they would have attacked on Erdogan during his son’s wedding and he could have blown up the bombs on himself after he had approached Erdogan like a guard. According to another plan, the car of Erdogan would have been sprayed with guns and the suicide bomber would have fulfilled the assassination during the chaos. Must have missed this one, as plans go, it could have worked. Glad it didn’t, Erdogan seems OK. TURKISH POLICE WARNS U.S.: BOMBERS TO ATTACK IN IRAQ Istanbul police determined that Al Qaida members Habib Aktas, Azad Ekinci and Gurcan Bac who had planned four bomb attacks in Turkey proceeded to Iraq and would make bomb attacks in Baghdad. Security Directorate warned U.S. officials and conveyed the photographs of those people to U.S. officials. Thought they had skipped to Iran. They sound more like controllers to me, too important to try any attacks themselves. Thanks for the photos. |
| Posted by:Steve |