02/04/2008
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Police arrested 45 suspected members of the terrorist network al-Qaeda Tuesday (April 1st), in a series of simultaneous operations across Istanbul. Media reports suggest they had planned a series of terrorist attacks in the city. No other details were released.
Meanwhile, the BBC reports that a total of 16 members of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party have been killed in clashes in the province of Sirnak, near the Turkish-Iraqi border since Monday. Three Turkish troops were killed and five injured. (Zaman - 02/04/08; CNN Turk, Reuters RIA-Novosti, NTV, Hurriyet, Anadolu news agency, Sabah, AFP - 01/04/08)