Word: yildirim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manhunt around the city for them. Authorities tightened security at the city's gates, and Arab students were detained for questioning in Istanbul and Ankara, the capital. Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal convened an emergency Cabinet meeting in Ankara to review the situation and then dispatched Interior Minister Yildirim Akbulut to oversee the investigation in Istanbul. But after extensive searches, police said they believed only two terrorists were involved, and both had died in the attack...
Interior Minister Yildirim Akbulut said the gunmen locked the synagogue's main door with an iron bar to keep worshipers from escaping and sprayed the congregation with bullets...
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