TURKEY-ATTACKS/DETENTIONS Turkish leftist group claims U.S. consulate attack - website

Record ID: 144394

  • Title: TURKEY-ATTACKS/DETENTIONS Turkish leftist group claims U.S. consulate attack - website
  • Date: 10th August 2015
  • Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (AUGUST 10, 2015) (REUTERS) AMBULANCE ARRIVING AT HOSPITAL VARIOUS OF DHKP-C SYMPATHISERS STAGING A SIT-IN PROTEST OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL POLICE WALKING TOWARDS PROTESTERS POLICEMEN WITH SHIELDS ARRIVING VARIOUS OF POLICE HANDCUFFING AND DETAINING PROTESTERS
  • Embargoed: 25th August 2015 13:00
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  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA4Y2P97RQ9N7DRUVQSIYVFN3Y0
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  • Story Text: Turkish far-leftist group The Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), posted a statement online on Monday (August 10) claiming one of its members carried out an attack on the U.S. consulate in Istanbul because the United States was an "enemy of the peoples of the Middle East".
    Two women shot at the consulate in Istanbul on Monday and at least eight people were killed in a wave of separate attacks on Turkish security forces, weeks after Ankara launched a crackdown on Islamic State, Kurdish and far-left militants.
    One of the two women was later captured wounded, the Istanbul governor's office said.
    The Dogan news agency said the injured woman was aged 51 and had served prison time for being a suspected member of the DHKP-C. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
    The DHKP-C, listed as a terrorist organisation by the United States and Turkey, has claimed responsibility for similar attacks in the past, including a suicide bombing at the U.S. embassy in Ankara in 2013 which killed a Turkish security guard.
    Meanwhile a group of DHKP-C sympathisers staged a sit-in protest outside the hospital where one of the consulate attackers is undergoing treatment.
    Minor scuffles broke out as police rounded up the protesters.
    Turkey has been in a heightened state of alert since starting its "synchronised war on terror" last month, including air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq. It has also rounded up hundreds of suspected militants at home.
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