Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said six people were injured. (representative))
Istanbul:
Turkish police on Tuesday killed a man and a woman belonging to a left-wing “terrorist” group who attacked a security checkpoint outside Istanbul’s main court and wounded six people, officials said.
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the attackers were members of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party Front (DHKP-C), a fringe left-wing group that has carried out regular attacks in Turkey since the 1980s.
The group did not initially claim responsibility.
“Although the terrorists who attempted the attack were subdued, six people were injured, including three police officers and three citizens,” Yelikaya said in a statement on social media.
Turkey has begun to emerge from a period of violence that began a decade ago when it suffered multiple bombings and other attacks linked to jihadist fighters and Kurdish operatives.
While the attacks have largely subsided, Istanbul and the capital Ankara remain on high alert.
Last month, a man was shot dead by two gunmen inside a Catholic church in Istanbul. Jihadists from the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.
In October, two attackers wounded two police officers in an attack in the government district of the capital Ankara, for which Kurdish agents claimed responsibility.
Turkey responded by stepping up air strikes against Kurdish targets in Syria and Iraq.
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