Articles About Terrorist Activities

Agence France Presse

Finnish police said Wednesday they had arrested five men on suspicion of trying to set fire to the Turkish Embassy in Helsinki.

“We have now arrested five people connected with this case. This afternoon we detained the fifth person,” Helsinki police chief inspector Markku Stenberg told Agence France-Presse.

The door of the embassy building was set ablaze with flammable liquid in the early hours of Tuesday. The fire was quickly detected by a police patrol and extinguished, but one embassy worker was hospitalized with injuries.

Stenberg said those arrested were aged 16 to 20 and were all of Turkish origin. At least some were Kurds.

“We have continued interrogations today. It has become clearer how it all happened. But I will not comment possible motives,” he said.

The attack came after around 200 Kurds demonstrated Monday outside the embassy in support of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed head of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.

Turkey’s embassy said Tuesday the act carried “all the signs of a politically motivated” attack by the PKK.

The PKK is blacklisted as a terrorist organization by the European Union and the United States. More than 37,000 people have died since it took up arms against Turkish troops in 1984.

Ocalan has been in Turkish custody since 1999.

Source: www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=118358