Six American soldiers and a Turkish national are in quarantine in an Istanbul hospital after a suspicious powder was found at the city's main airport.
Laboratory experts are analysing the substance amid fears that it might be anthrax.
One of the soldiers discovered the powder when he opened a parcel which his group had been assigned to pick up.
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