Turkey was on alert over possible attack by DHKP/C, President Gül says

ANKARA

Turkish President Abdullah Gül, AA photo

President Abdullah Gül has said that Turkish police and the intelligence service had information that the outlawed Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) could launch an assault prior to the Feb. 1 suicide attack on the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.

“Unfortunately, both the police department and the intelligence service were on alert concerning the fact that this terror organization [DHKP/C] was seeking to launch an attack, they were warning everybody. But unfortunately it could not be prevented and the attack against the embassy took place,” Gül said on Feb. 4 during a joint press conference with Serbia’s visiting President Tomislav Nikolic.