Turkey seizes 100kg explosives

It was not immediately clear where the explosives were destined. Paramilitary police at the checkpoint also discovered more than 1,500 bullets for Kalashnikov rifles, an official said yesterday.

Police detained the Turkish driver. The state-run Anatolia news agency said the truck with Turkish licence plates was carrying 400 blocks of C4, a high velocity military explosive. Turkey fears instability in neighbouring Iraq could stir unrest among its restive Kurdish population in the southeast, a region that also borders Syria and Iran.