A Turkish man arrested on suspicion of planning a suicide bomb attack was found hanged in a police cell early on Tuesday, Anatolia news agency said.
It said 33-year-old Yunus Guzel, was found hanging from torn-up bedsheets by police who arrived to take him to a state security court.
Police alleged that Guzel was a member of the far-left People's Revolutionary Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), which the authorities believe is behind a prison hunger strike campaign during which a total of 41 people have starved themselves to death since last March.
Anatolia said police had arrested him on suspicion htat he was planning to blow up a public building by strapping an explosive device to his body and turning himself into a "human bomb."
The DHKP-C claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack onSeptember 10 that killed four people -- two police officers, an Australian woman and the bomber.
In the 1990's the same group was implicated in a large number of attacks on officials of the Turkish state, which killed dozens of people, including two former generals and a former government minister.
Last week Turkish police arrested two women who were alleged to be far-left activists planning similar suicide attacks -- Istanbul, (AFP)
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