Turks are to stage silent "peace protests", to express their grief and anger over truck bomb attacks, which killed more than 50 people in the worst week of peacetime violence in Turkey's modern history.
United States President George W Bush said Turkey, a NATO ally long held up by the US as a model for Islamic democracy, had become a new front in the "war on terror".
The Hurriyet newspaper reported police had detained 18 people in connection with their investigation.
Police were not immediately available to comment on the report.
Authorities said on Friday several people had been arrested over Thursday's blasts, but gave no further details.
A statement purporting to come from a unit of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network said it carried out the twin strikes on the British consulate and the London-based HSBC bank, which killed at least 27 people and wounded more than 400.
Five days earlier, 25 people were killed in similar suicide attacks on two synagogues. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s995112.htm
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