Law enforcement officials remain on alert following intelligence reports indicating that members of the terrorist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) are plotting attacks disguised as police officers.

The DHKP-C, responsible for a string of attacks on the police and killing a prosecutor in his office at an Istanbul courthouse, was apparently planning to infiltrate police headquarters, courthouses and foreign missions. Dolphin Teams, a motorcycle unit of the Turkish National Police, could be attempted to be kidnapped by terrorists seeking to pose as police officers from that unit, intelligence reports warned. The police in the capital Ankara are also on alert against a DHKP-C militant "wearing a headscarf" who was plotting attacks.

The General Directorate of Police warned its local branches to step up security measures, especially at courthouses and lodgings of judges and prosecutors, and increase patrols in the vicinity of embassies.

Earlier this month police arrested two members of the DHKP-C in Istanbul. Plans on a hard drive found in the possession of the suspects revealed that they were planning to launch attacks against foreign missions, police, political parties and foreign companies.