Bomb in the Greek Embasy of Ankara on the eve of Karamanlis visit

[chris450]

according to the Turkish daily "Sabah" on the eve of the official visit of the Greek PM in Turkey (the first offical visit after 49 years) there was a bombing attempt against the Greek embassy of Ankara.

4 suspicious individuals caused the interest of the guards ,leading to the discovery of an exploding device infront of the main gate.
The package that contained the explosives ,fortunately was neutralised before it went off .The PMs program included a visit to the Greek embassy of the Turkish capital.The case is under investigation,no arrests so far

The article (in Turkish)
http://www.sabah.com.tr/2008/02/02/haber,44E104FDC4734ACF80308F18A367C365.html

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4654/b1jb8.jpg

[Vorian]

What the....first time I heard of this.

[chris450]

Its also in todays "To Proto Thema" newspaper,obviously its beeing downplayed

[achilles]

Downplayed allright. No TV channel has said anything about it so far.

Good job by the Turkish authorities.

[4X4Driver]

The newspaper article in Chris' post says that it was a "sound bomb". I think the aim was to provoke something rather than kill anyone..but stil, it's good to hear that it was taken care of before it went off.