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Turkey detains 200 Hizb-ut-Tahrir suspects
Police arrested nearly 200 people in early morning raids Friday in 23 cities as part of an operation against a violent Islamist group, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Police targeted suspected members of the Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which, according to its literature, backs the creation of a world Islamic state and the application of Shariah (Islamic) law, the agency reported.
Turkish police regularly investigate and make arrests among the country's more militant Islamic community, searching in particular groups or individuals linked to al-Qaeda.
The authorities blame a local cell of al-Qaeda for the November 2003 attacks against two synagogues, the British consulate and the British bank HSBC, which killed a total of 63 people.
A court in 2007 sentenced seven people identified as al-Qaeda activists to life imprisonment, including a Syrian identified as having masterminded and financed the attacks.
Turkey's appeals court upheld the life sentences in a ruling handed down in June.
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