TURKISH POLICE DETAIN DOZENS OVER EXPLOSIVES CACHE

NTV MSNBC
Jan 22 2008
Turkey

Among those taken into custody were lawyers, former military personnel
and persons with links to far right wing nationalist groups.

ISTANBUL – Turkish police have detained more than 30 people Tuesday
in connection with the discovery of a cache of explosives in the
Istanbul suburb of Umraniye.

Among those detained during the series of carried out by police
in Istanbul and Izmir was Fuat Turgut, the lawyer for Yasin Hayal,
who is currently on trial for masterminding the murder of prominent
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink on January 19 2007.

Others to be taken into custody include retired Turkish army officer
Veli Kucuk and controversial right wing lawyer Kemal Kerincsiz, who
has launched a number of court cases against well known authors and
intellectuals, including Dink and Nobel Prize winning writer Orhan
Pamuk, for insulting Turkish identity.