Author: PTI
Publication: Rediff on Net
Date: November 20, 2003
URL: http://in.rediff.com/news/2003/nov/20turkey1.htm
Turkish police have found clues
pointing to Pakistani links in last week's synagogue bombings in Istanbul,
a report said on Thursday.
Three of the four Turkish suicide
bombers involved in the attacks received training in Pakistan and Iran
while the background of the fourth man was still not clear, The Turkish
Daily News reported.
At least seven killed in Istanbul
bombings
The paper also said that the police
found pieces of a Pakistani passport believed to belong to one of the attackers.
But it did not say why a Turk would have a Pakistani passport.
The local media carried the names
and photos of the four terrorists on Thursday.
"Four Al Qaeda Turkish militants
organised synagogue bombings," a headline in the Turkish Sabah newspaper
said.
Six people were arrested on Wednesday
in connection with the bombings.
Meanwhile, a police official in
Dubai denied reports in the Turkish press that two accomplices of the attackers,
Azad Ekinci, and Feridun Ugurlu, had fled to Dubai before the bombings.
The official said that they went
through the airport records during the past month and the two names were
not listed. They were checking the photographs published in the media to
determine if the two had entered the country.
