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Turkey detains two IS suspects over New Year attack plot

Turkish police have detained two people in Ankara suspected of plotting a New Year suicide attack, say reports.

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“Prosecutors in Ankara say two suspects who had crossed into Turkey from Syria were detained in the capital”.


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The official told Reuters the two men, who entered Turkey from Syria, were thought to have been preparing an attack on Kizilay square in the centre of Ankara, where crowds usually gather to celebrate the New Year. Police found a vest strapped with explosives and bomb-making equipment on the scene, according to the chief prosecutor’s office.


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The agency said the attackers were planning to detonate the suicide vests at two locations during the celebrations.

The October attack in Ankara was blamed on IS jihadists, like two other deadly strikes in the country’s Kurdish-dominated southeast earlier in the summer.

The Belga news agency, citing an internal police memo, said there “exists a possible and credible threat of Paris-style attacks” against the high-profile Grand Place, the neighbouring central police station as well as soldiers and police in uniform.

Prosecutors said the arrests were carried out in Yakup Abdal, a neighborhood on the southern outskirts of Ankara, but gave no detail on the timing of the police operation.

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More than 30 people were also killed in a IS suicide attack in the town of Suruc, near Turkey’s border with Syria, in July.

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