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Sweep nets Turkish militant suspects in three countries

CLAMPDOWN Police across Europe cooperated in the security sweep before the Athens Olympics and caught more than 50 suspected terror trainees in raids on Thursday

AP , ANKARA, TURKEY

In Germany, police searched three apartments in two states, at the request of Italian prosecutors in Perugia, said Duesseldorf prosecutor Johannes Mocken.

Nihat Ali Ozcan, a terror expert in Turkey, said "there was lack of cooperation in the field of security and now they want to mutually solve this problem quickly. The rising terror risk during Olympics is fueling this trend but the main reason is they want to make sure Turkey seals its borders and cracks down on Islamic terrorists."

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