(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Turkey has arrested nine suspected members of the Daesh terrorist group for allegedly plotting suicide attacks on a political party and an opposition newspaper, media reports said Wednesday.
Police detained two suspects after a car chase on Friday in the southeastern province of Gaziantep near the Syrian border and another seven accomplices were detained in later police raids.
The suspects were acting on the orders of high-ranking Daesh members in Syria and had planned to create "an atmosphere of fear and chaos" ahead of last Sunday's parliamentary election, the Gaziantep governor's office said in a statement.
The nine, who were caught with grenades, explosives and suicide vests, were plotting suicide bomb attacks on the Istanbul headquarters of an unidentified party.
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