Court orders arrest of nine al-Qaida suspects

A court in central Turkey has ordered the arrest of nine Turks believed to have received training at al-Qaida camps abroad.

The nine were detained for questioning last week in central Konya province as part of probes into a string of suicide attacks in November in Istanbul that killed 62 people, including British consul general Roger Short, and an attack this month on a Masonic lodge also in Istanbul.