ISTANBUL ( 2008-04-01 20:50:52 ) :
Turkish anti-terror police on Tuesday detained 45 people on suspicion of belonging to the al Qaeda extremist network and planning attacks, Anatolia news agency reported.
The suspects, rounded up in simultaneous operations in eight districts of Istanbul, were being questioned by police, the report said.
A court was to decide later whether they should be charged and jailed pending trial or released.
In January, police raided 18 locations in southeast Turkey on intelligence that a local al Qaeda cell was planning car bomb attacks. Four alleged militants and a policeman were then killed in a gunfight, and 17 suspects arrested.
A Turkish cell of the extremist network was blamed for truck bombs that targeted two synagogues in Istanbul on November 15, 2003, and the British consulate and a British bank five days later. The attacks killed 63 people, injured hundreds and caused huge material damage.
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