- ANKARA, Turkey: Turkey's state news agency says police have detained 14 people suspected of ties to the Al-Qaeda terror network.
The Anatolia agency says the suspects were detained for questioning in simultaneous raids in four cities early Tuesday.
It did not cite a source for the report.
Police in the central city of Konya, where most of the raids reportedly took place, would not comment on the report.
In January, Turkish police launched a major crackdown on suspected militants, rounding up 120 people Homegrown militants tied to Al-Qaeda carried out suicide bombings in Istanbul in 2003, killing 58 people.
In 2008, an attack blamed on Al-Qaeda-affiliated militants outside the US Consulate in Istanbul left three assailants and three policemen dead.