The suspect was detained in Hatay province, near Turkey's border with Syria, Gov. Celalettin Lekesiz said.

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Turkish officials have moved some Syrian refugees, most of them Sunni Muslims, away from Alawite-inhabited areas in Hatay.

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Police prevented the protesters from reaching the site of the blasts in the center of the town, which lies in Turkey's southern Hatay province.

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Monday's explosion happened in the area of the Cilvegozu customs post on the Turkish side of the border, in the southern province of Hatay.

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For good measure, Turkey also wants Syria to renounce its claims on the southern province of Hatay (the former sanjak of Alexandretta, which the French handed to Turkey in 1939).

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Celalettin Lekesiz, governor of Hatay province, said Saturday that security forces had detained 17 people so far in connection with the bomb attacks and are hunting for four others, the semi-official Anadolu news agency reported.

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In fact, so eager has Syria been to woo Turkey that in 2005 it scrapped a longstanding territorial claim to Hatay, a province granted to Turkey in 1939 by France, Syria's colonial master at the time.

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