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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey crackdown on radical group after US embassy attack |
| 2013-02-19 |
| Turkish police launched a massive nationwide crackdown Tuesday against a radical Marxist group which claimed a suicide bomb attack against the US embassy this month, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported. Police issued arrest warrants for 167 people in 28 cities as part of the operation against the Revolutionary People's Liberation Front (DHKP-C), which is classified as a terrorist organisation by the United States, Anatolia said. A Turkish guard at the US embassy in Ankara was killed in the February 1 attack and three other people including a journalist were wounded. The outlawed DHKP-C has waged a string of attacks over the past few decades that have left dozens of people dead, including prominent political and military figures. The fiercely anti-US group has threatened further attacks on other US diplomatic facilities in Turkey. |
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