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Turkey arrests 11 over abduction of Iranian dissident

Turkish intelligence believe Habib Chaab was lured to Istanbul and abducted by a group working on behalf of Iran.
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Turkey has arrested 11 people suspected of working with Iran to abduct an Iranian opposition figure in Istanbul and smuggle him back to Iran. 

Prominent Arab dissident Habib Chaab, who for the past 14 years had lived in exile in Sweden, had flown to Turkey in October to meet with a woman, The Washington Post reports. Sources told the outlet that he and the woman, who arrived in Turkey the day before on a fake Iranian passport, arranged to meet at a gas station in Istanbul.

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