ISTANBUL - Police captured one person within the scope of investigation into bomb attacks in Istanbul.
Istanbul Anti-Terrorism office said on Friday that one person who was claimed to provide the connection between an international terrorist organization and the structure formed in Turkey in connection with that organization was captured.
Recalling that operational studies started following the four bomb attacks in Istanbul, Istanbul Anti-Terrorism office said that ''a member of the terrorist organization whose connection with the captured persons was detained when he entered the country by airway on December 15, 2003. In his interrogation, the captured person said that a structure was formed in Turkey in connection with an international terrorist organization, he was abroad to provide the connection between that structure and the terrorist organization. The persons who were within that structure received military and political training by that terrorist organization abroad and the activities were financed by the international terrorist organization, he noted.''
(Öª-AÖ) 19.12.2003