A Syrian man, who had been detained earlier this week, was charged by a Turkish court on Thursday for plotting a possible attack on Israeli cruise ships docking on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. The Syrian man, Louasi Sakra, shouted from the court's waiting room to reporters outside that he had prepared a ton of explosives with the intention of hurting Israelis, not Turks, only Israelis.

An alert was issued for two men after police investigated a suspicious fire in a building outside the southern Mediterranean resort Antalya. Explosives and two fake passports were found in the building, police reports said. Sakka is one of two men who were arrested last Saturday, the second, Hamed Obysi, 21, was picked up while trying to bribe Syrian customs police to allow him into Syria. Sakka was arrested while trying to board a plane in Diyarbakir to Istanbul with fake Identification.