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Ten Senior Members of Turkish Leftist Radical Group Detained in Istanbul

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At least ten senior members of the ultra-leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front party (DHKP-C), outlawed in Turkey, have been detained during a... 17.08.2016, Sputnik International

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Ten Senior Members of Turkish Leftist Radical Group Detained in Istanbul

18:08 GMT 17.08.2016

© AFP 2023 / BULENT KILICMilitants of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) stand in the street with guns during a demonstration after the funeral of a protester killed in a recent protest

Militants of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) stand in the street with guns during a demonstration after the funeral of a protester killed in a recent protest - Sputnik International

At least ten senior members of the ultra-leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front party (DHKP-C), outlawed in Turkey, have been detained during a special police raid in Istanbul, local media reported Wednesday.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the Daily Sabah newspaper, the men were detained during a secret meeting. The detained men were active in Turkey's provinces of Adana, Bursa, Tunceli, Antalya, Elazıg-Malatya, Gaziantep, Mersin, Diyarbakır and Eskisehir.

DHKP-C is a Marxist-Leninist party created in 1978.

The party strongly opposes US and NATO influence on Turkish politics and has been notorious for a number of suicide bombings. Among most recent attacks, DHKP-C claimed responsibility for the attack on a police station in Istanbul, when two female perpetrators were killed by special forces.