Turkey charges nine suspects over NATO summit attack plans

ANKARA (AFP) May 03, 2004
A court in northwestern Turkey on Monday charged nine suspects, believed to be linked to the Al-Qaeda network, in connection with plans to bomb a NATO summit in Istanbul next month, the Anatolia news agency reported.

The suspects were charged with "membership of an outlawed terrorist organization", the agency said.

They were among 16 men detained in the city of Bursa after police tracked them for a year as they hatched plans to attack the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit set for June 28-29.

The remaining seven men were released earlier Monday after being questioned by a court prosecutor, the agency said.

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