Turkish police 'foil' NATO summit bomb plot
Turkish police have foiled a bomb plot targeting a NATO summit in Istanbul on June 28-29, CNN Turk has reported.
The summit is to be attended by US President George W Bush and other Western leaders.
Police arrested 16 people belonging to a militant Islamist group called Ansar al-Islam.
They also seized guns, explosives and 4,000 compact discs featuring training instructions from Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, CNN Turk reported.
The arrests were made in the town of Bursa, 250 kilometres south of Istanbul, it said.
No more details were immediately available.
Ansar al-Islam is a militant group from Kurdish northern Iraq, accused by Washington of being an ally of Al Qaeda and a force behind attacks on US troops occupying Iraq.
Turkish police are stepping up security in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city and commercial hub, before the NATO summit, where Iraq will feature on the leaders' agenda.