Subject: TURKEY/PLOT (S ONLY) BY KIM REID/CAIRO Topic: voa From: yanni@ix.netcom.com (Ioannis Bousnakis) DATE=4/19/95 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-177251 TITLE= TURKEY/PLOT (S ONLY) BYLINE= KIM REID DATELINE= CAIRO CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: TURKISH POLICE SAY THEY ARRESTED 21 SUSPECTS IN A POSSIBLE PLOT TO ASSASSINATE TURKEY'S PRIME MINISTER TANSU CILLER. MS. CILLER IS NOW ON A WEEK-LONG TOUR OF THE UNITED STATES. KIM REID HAS MORE FROM VOA'S MIDDLE EAST BUREAU IN CAIRO. TEXT: TURKISH POLICE IN ISTANBUL SAY THE SUSPECTS ARE MEMBERS OF THE LEFT-WING EXTREMIST GROUP, THE REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S SALVATION FRONT. EIGHT OF THOSE ARRESTED ARE WOMEN. THE ANATOLIAN NEWS AGENCY SAYS POLICE SEIZED A HANDWRITTEN MAP FROM ONE OF THE SUSPECTS' HOMES. THE MAP DEPICTED THE AREA WHERE MS. CILLER HAS HER PRIVATE RESIDENCE, ON THE BOSPHORUS STRAIT IN ISTANBUL. THE AGENCY SAYS THE GROUP PLANNED TO KILL MS. CILLER IN HER HOME. POLICE SAY THE DETAINEES ARE ALSO SUSPECTED OF CARRYING OUT A NUMBER OF BOMB ATTACKS AND OTHER CIVIL DISTURBANCES AROUND ISTANBUL. THE REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S SALVATION FRONT IS AN URBAN GUERRILLA MOVEMENT ESTABLISHED BY THE FORMER MEMBERS OF ANOTHER MILITANT GROUP, THE DEV SOL OR REVOLUTIONARY LEFT. THE GROUP HAS KILLED WESTERN MILITARY PERSONNEL AND BUSINESSMEN AS WELL AS HIGH-RANKING TURKISH SECURITY OFFICIALS. POLICE KILLED THREE DEV SOL MEMBERS LAST WEEK. (SIGNED) NEB/KR/MH/KBK 19-Apr-95 2:35 PM EDT (1835 UTC) NNNN Source: Voice of America