Attack On Masonic Lodge: Five Of Ten People Sent To Court For Their Arrest

ISTANBUL - Five of the ten people who had been detained under investigation into bomb attack on the Free and Accepted Masons Grand Lodge Association's building in Yakacik neighborhood of Kartal district in Istanbul and later transferred to the State Security Court (DGM), were sent to court with a request for their arrest.
Two DGM prosecutors interrogated those ten people and sent five of them to the Istanbul DGM on duty court for their arrest on charges of ''being member of illegal organization'' and ''aiding and abetting illegal organization''.
Meanwhile, five of them were released after their interrogation.
ONE SUSPECT CLAIMED TO HAVE TESTIFIED THEY PLAN TO STAGE SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK ON A PRESS ORGAN
One of the three persons who were detained and are supposed to have been involved in murder of dentist Yasef Yahya, was claimed to have said in his testimony that ''they were planning to stage a suicide bomb attack on a press organ''.
Sources said on Tuesday that police continued to interrogate three people who were detained after bomb attack on the Free and Accepted Masons Grand Lodge Association's building in Yakacik neighborhood of Kartal district in Istanbul on March 9 and are suspected of murder of dentist Yasef Yahya.
A high-level police official told the A.A correspondent that one of the suspects testified that they were planning to stage a suicide bomb attack on a press organ.
Noting that the investigation was under way, the official did not name the press organ.
(AA) 16.03.2004