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    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.
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