Subject: TURKEY/PLOT (S ONLY) BY KIM REID/CAIRO
Topic: voa
From: yanni@ix.netcom.com (Ioannis Bousnakis)
 
DATE=4/19/95
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-177251
TITLE= TURKEY/PLOT (S ONLY) 
BYLINE= KIM REID 
DATELINE= CAIRO 
CONTENT=
VOICED AT: 

INTRO:  TURKISH POLICE SAY THEY ARRESTED 21 SUSPECTS IN A 
POSSIBLE PLOT TO ASSASSINATE TURKEY'S PRIME MINISTER TANSU 
CILLER.  MS. CILLER IS NOW ON A WEEK-LONG TOUR OF THE UNITED 
STATES.  KIM REID HAS MORE FROM VOA'S MIDDLE EAST BUREAU IN 
CAIRO. 

TEXT: TURKISH POLICE IN ISTANBUL SAY THE SUSPECTS ARE MEMBERS OF 
THE LEFT-WING EXTREMIST GROUP, THE REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S 
SALVATION FRONT.  EIGHT OF THOSE ARRESTED ARE WOMEN. 

THE ANATOLIAN NEWS AGENCY SAYS POLICE SEIZED A HANDWRITTEN MAP 
FROM ONE OF THE SUSPECTS' HOMES. THE MAP DEPICTED THE AREA WHERE 
MS. CILLER HAS HER PRIVATE RESIDENCE, ON THE BOSPHORUS STRAIT IN 
ISTANBUL.  THE AGENCY SAYS THE GROUP PLANNED TO KILL MS. CILLER 
IN HER HOME. 

POLICE SAY THE DETAINEES ARE ALSO SUSPECTED OF CARRYING OUT A 
NUMBER OF BOMB ATTACKS AND OTHER CIVIL DISTURBANCES AROUND 
ISTANBUL. 

THE REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S SALVATION FRONT IS AN URBAN GUERRILLA 
MOVEMENT ESTABLISHED BY THE FORMER MEMBERS OF ANOTHER MILITANT 
GROUP, THE DEV SOL OR REVOLUTIONARY LEFT.  THE GROUP HAS KILLED 
WESTERN MILITARY PERSONNEL AND BUSINESSMEN AS WELL AS 
HIGH-RANKING TURKISH SECURITY OFFICIALS.  POLICE KILLED THREE DEV
SOL MEMBERS LAST WEEK. (SIGNED)

NEB/KR/MH/KBK

19-Apr-95 2:35 PM EDT (1835 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America