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Armed police have foiled a suspected assassination attempt linked to feuding Turkish drug gangs in north London, it was revealed today.
Specialist firearms officers swooped on a gang in Tottenham after an undercover operation.
Three men, two wearing bulletproof vests, were arrested and officers recovered a bag with a loaded handgun. The men were still being questioned today.
This week's operation was part of a crackdown on a gang war which has seen at least three firearms murders in London since March.
Two groups, the Tottenham Boys and the Bombacilar, are fighting over territory and control of the heroin trade in north London.
In October shop worker Cem Duzgun, 21, died in a hail of bullets after he left a club in Clapton.
His killing is believed to have been revenge for the murder three days earlier of a Turkish suspected gangster, Oktay Erbasli, 23, shot dead in his Range Rover at traffic lights in Tottenham.
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