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- <text id=91TT1710>
- <title>
- Aug. 05, 1991: World Notes:Turkey
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 05, 1991 Was It Worth It?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 43
- World Notes
- TURKEY
- Foiling a Deadly Plot
- </hdr><body>
- <p> During his two-day visit to Turkey, George Bush watched
- whirling dervishes perform, sailed down the Bosporus and seemed
- calm and relaxed. That was pretty remarkable, considering that
- a few days earlier Turkish officials had foiled an elaborate
- plot to kill the U.S. President. Acting on information
- developed by Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, police
- mounted a series of raids on eight safe houses in Istanbul,
- killing 10 people and capturing 12 others involved in the
- attempt.
- </p>
- <p> U.S. and Turkish officials identified the conspirators as
- members of Dev Sol, a leftist group responsible for killing an
- American near the Incirlik air base, outside Adana, during the
- allied bombing campaign against Iraq. According to the daily
- Milliyet, the group was planning to assassinate Bush in Ankara
- with a remote-controlled bomb that was to be planted either in
- Ataturk's Mausoleum, which he visited, or in a parked car that
- would explode as the President's limousine left the mausoleum.
- Maps found by police suggested that explosives were also to have
- been placed under the lids of sewage drains on the road. A State
- Department official told TIME that the raids had seriously
- diminished, but not ended, the threat from Dev Sol.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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