| Turkish police have rounded up 17 people for suspected links to the al Qaeda extremist network in an operation in four provinces, the Anatolia news agency reported on Wednesday. The operation began on Tuesday in the central province of Konya, a militant stronghold, and then spread to three other provinces, the agency said. The Turkish police regularly target al Qaeda cells since the group was blamed for a series of deadly bombings in the country's biggest city Istanbul.In January, 120 suspects were detained in a massive dawn sweep across the country. |