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![image: [ The Incirlik air-base: home of the Northern Watch ]](/olmedia/images/_44597_incirlik.jpg)
Police arrested a man and a woman in possession of home-made bombs and hand grenades in Adana near to the Turkish-American base.
![[ image: width=150]](/olmedia/images/_44597_map150_turkey_iraq.gif)
Television reports said they were suspected of being members of the illegal Popular Liberation Revolutionary Front, formerly known as Dev-Sol.
Incirlik is home of the Operation Northern Watch which patrols the no-fly zone from which the Iraqi air-force is excluded. It saw intense activity during the recent stand-off between the US and Iraq.
Both F-15 and F-16 fighter planes are based there.
Turkish television quoted a security directorate statement saying the two people detained were "preparing to carry out an act of terrorism on the Incirlik air base and on a police station in Osmaniye."
![[ image: width=150]](/olmedia/images/_44597_north.jpg)
The statement continued to say the pair had previously been involved in the murder of a guard, an arson and the wounding of a policeman in Adana.
The bombs and grenades were found alongside plans of the Incirlik base and other document in the suspects' homes, it said.
Dev-Sol claimed responsibility for a number of attacks early in the 1990s, including the murder of a former justice minister.
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(14 Nov 97 | World)
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