Police crackdown on Turkish mafia

Two days after Monday's fatal daylight ambush in the southern Athens suburb of Glyfada, believed to stem from a turf war among Turkish organized crime factions operating in Greece, police arrested eight suspects and detained another eight in Athens and Thessaloniki on Thursday.

As part of the same operation, authorities seized 49 firearms and an unspecified quantity of drugs.

Sources indicated that the operation, which is still ongoing, had been planned prior to Monday's shooting, which left two people dead and one injured.

No further details are available at this time.