Turkish police detained six suspected members of the Islamic State jihadist group planning a bomb attack on an opposition protest march, a provincial governor tells Turkish media.
Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu is on the final stage of a 450-kilometer (280-mile) “justice march” from Ankara to Istanbul to protest at the legal system under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Suleyman Kamci, who governs the central Anatolian province of Kayseri, said police detained six IS militants after “acting on a good tip-off,” the Hurriyet daily’s website reported.
“They were going to attack the march with a minibus,” he said. “A big provocation has been thwarted.” There was no immediate confirmation from national officials.
Two of the would-be bombers were detained in Kocaeli in northwestern Turkey — 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Istanbul and four others in Kayseri, Hurriyet said.
— AFP
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