Turkish police arrests 200 members of Islamist group
24.07.2009 21:05 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish police arrested nearly 200 people in
early-morning raids Friday in 23 cities as part of an operation
against a militant Islamist group.
Police targeted suspected members of the Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which backs
the creation of a world Islamic state and the application of Sharia
law.
Turkish police regularly investigate and make arrests among the
country’s more militant Islamic community, in particular searching
groups or individuals linked to Al-Qaeda.
The authorities blame a local cell of Al-Qaeda for the November 2003
attacks against two synagogues, the British consulate and a branch of
HSBC Holdings PLC (HBC), which killed a total of 63 people, the
Anatolia news agency reported.