COLOGNE, Germany, Aug 5 (AFP) - German police launched raids in two states Thursday seizing documents and computers and questioning more than 50 people suspected of links to an outlawed far-left Turkish group.
Police said they raided the premises of a Turkish association in Cologne, western Germany and the home of a member suspected of setting up a successor group to the People's Revolutionary Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).
A total of 56 people were questioned in the southwest state of Baden-Wuerttemberg after police raided a camping site there, taking photographs and the fingerprints of 39 people.
Police said the association in Cologne was suspected of organising the meeting at the camping site but the Turkish nationals questioned there said they had been holding a family gathering.
German prosecutors said they suspect that the meeting was to train new members.
The DHKP-C is on the European Union's list of terrorist organisations and was outlawed by Germany in 1998.
It has carried out numerous attacks on representatives of the Turkish state and has been blamed for dozens of deaths, among them those of a former justice minister and two retired generals.
Most recently it claimed responsibility for a bomb on a bus that killed four people and injured 21 days before the NATO summit in Istanbul in June.
Its bloodiest operation before then took place on September 10, 2001, when a suicide bomber killed three people and himself in Istanbul's central Taksim district.