ISTANBUL - Police captured on Sunday one person in Istanbul who was claimed to be the assailant of several bomb attacks in Istanbul and Ankara, including the attack on vehicle carrying judges and prosecutors working in Istanbul State Security Court (DGM).
A statement of Istanbul Anti-Terrorism Department said that the captured person, who was a member of the terrorist DHKP/C organization, staged attack on a vehicle carrying DGM judges and prosecutors, and a bomb attack on the Judges' Club in Istanbul.
The statement noted that the detainee had prepared the bomb which exploded on a female member of the terrorist organization when she was in preparation of an attack on a cafe in Kizilay district of Ankara.
(BRC) 19.10.2003