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Terrorist attacks in Turkey kills 6 officers and closes down U.S. Consulate
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Marxist and Kurdish militants are blamed for several attacks that left Istanbul and a province devastated, Monday. Six members of the security forces are reportedly dead after attacks, while the U.S. consulate in the city is temporarily closed down after similar attacks by militants. Air campaigns against militants are still insisted for by the government, according to The Daily Mail.
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Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
8/11/2015 (9 years ago)
Published in Middle East
Keywords: Turkey, Istanbul, Sirnak Province, Marxists, Kurdish, Militants, Islamic State, U.S. Consulate, Police Station, Officers
MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - Although the air strikes launched by the Turkish government are primarily against both the Islamic State group jihadists and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants waging terror in the land, reports say most efforts are against the latter group. The Kurdish militants in turn strike back against the government, blasting out the ceasefire of 2013.
Twin attacks took place in Istanbul, the country's largest city, where a senior police officer was killed. According to reports, a suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a vehicle at a Sultanbeyli district police station, wounding 10 people and killing the head of the police bomb disposal department, Beyazit Ceken. The governor's office said he sustained injuries during the clash between officers and militants from the PKK and died at the hospital.
Meanwhile, the U.S. consulate in the city was also under attack; the blame placed on the Marxist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C). Two female militants launched gun attacks in the consulate where one of them was taken into custody and the other remains at large. Identified as Hatice Asik, 42, the woman is a member of the outlawed DHKP-C, which is actively planning a suicide bombing similar to one executed in the past.
Four police officers were killed during a roadside bombing in the province of Sirnak, which is blamed on the Kurdish militants alongside the killing of a Turkish soldier shot in military helicopter with rocket launchers.
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