Turkey to Create Special Police to Fight Terror, Hurriyet Says

By Emre Peker

Turkey is establishing an 11,000- person police unit that will carry out intelligence duties and combat terror alongside the military in rural areas, Hurriyet reported, citing Interior Ministry officials it didn’t identify.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last year asked the ministry, which controls the police, to start work on a special- forces unit aimed at broadening resources to fight terror, the Istanbul-based newspaper said. A commission comprised of the military, justice and interior ministries, police force, intelligence and gendarmerie started work on a legal framework, Hurriyet said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Emre Peker in Ankara at epeker2@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Louis Meixler in Jerusalem at lmeixler@bloomberg.net.

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