Turkey Arrests Suspects in 2 Bomb Attacks in Istanbul
Several people have been arrested in connection with two huge truck-bomb explosions which wrecked the British Consulate and a British bank in Istanbul on Thursday, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said today, confirming a report by a leading Turkish newspaper. The British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, who was in Turkey today to see the devastation, said on Thursday that the bombings bore “all the hallmarks of international terrorism practiced by Al Qaeda.” The Turkish daily newspaper Hurriyet said today that the police were interrogating seven people in the attacks, and that they believe the suicide bombers were two Turkish men linked to the perpetrators of bomb attacks at Jewish synagogues last Saturday. Full Story