T.A.T - Officials say police in Turkey's southern province of Gaziantep have detained nine alleged Islamic State militants who were planning suicide bomb attacks on the offices of a political party in Istanbul.
The Gaziantep
governor's office said late Tuesday that the group may also have been planning
attacks on the offices of a newspaper in Istanbul and Ankara.
It was not
clear when the arrests were made but the governor's office said the group
planned to create "fear and chaos" prior to the election that took place
Sunday.
Two of the
suspects were detained after they hurled hand grenades at police during a car
chase. The seven others were detained in police raids, it said.
In October,
two massive suicide bombings in Ankara — blamed on IS — killed 102 people.
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