Turkish police arrest suspect in bombing that injured 10 British tourists

The 32-year-old suspect's affiliation was not given, but the blast in the Mediterranean resort town of Marmaris in August 2006 had been claimed by a hardline Kurdish militant group called the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons.

Police had earlier arrested at least five suspects in connection with the same bombing, and Anatolia said they were still searching for two more people.

Turkey is gearing up for the summer tourism season, but violent clashes between Kurdish guerrillas and government forces have increased recently, raising fears of a resumption in bombing attacks.

At least 14 rebels have been killed by government forces in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast in the past week, and the chief of the armed forces on Thursday made an unusual request for permission to enter northern Iraq and attack the rebels there.

Since the beginning of the year, 13 Turkish soldiers have been killed in clashes with Kurdish guerrillas, Gen. Yasar Buyukanit said. The Associated Press

/The International Herald Tribune/