Tracing the trail of radical Turks

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/11/25/turkey.alqaeda/

ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) -- As investigators continue to probe who may have orchestrated the string of deadly suicide bombings in Istanbul this month, authorities are pointing the finger at Turkish radicals with links to conflicts in Chechnya, Bosnia and Afghanistan.

Officials fear extremist Turks who've been waging conflict abroad, have brought their fight home.

Investigators say the trail of the Istanbul suicide bombers starts in Turkey, leads through Chechnya and Bosnia, along with Afghanistan and Iran, before ending back in Turkey.

Turkish media have reported that one of the bombers in the November 20 suicide blasts at the HSBC bank and the British consulate was a Turk believed to have fought with Islamic radicals in Afghanistan and Chechnya.

But authorities are seeking to answer whether the Turkish bombers were lone actors or did larger terrorist groups such as al Qaeda manipulate them
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