Turkey: “terrorist” attack against the Istanbul Justice Palace, two attackers killed
One person was killed and five others injured this Tuesday morning, February 6, in Istanbul, in an attack described as “terrorist” by the authorities. Police killed two attackers who tried to attack them outside the courthouse in the country's largest city. The attack occurs in a very tense security context in Türkiye.
Police forensic experts examine the area after a shooting outside the Caglayan courthouse in Istanbul, Turkey February 6, 2024. REUTERS - MURAD SEZER
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With our correspondent in Istanbul,
Anne Andlauer
The attack once again hit an important location in Turkey – its main courthouse – and is particularly worrying as it is the third attack described as “terrorist” in just over four months.
The two attackers, a man and a woman, were quickly shot dead by the police, but they had time to attack six people, three police officers and three civilians. Authorities did not say what type of weapon the attackers used, but a video released to media shows one of them holding a pistol before being killed.
A new attack two months before local elections
The Interior Ministry published the names of the two attackers, saying they belonged to the DHKP-C, a far-left armed organization. In 2015, this group had already killed a prosecutor in the same court.
It is therefore a new attack in a large Turkish city less than two months before local elections. At the end of January, a man was killed in
the middle of mass in an Italian Catholic church
in Istanbul during an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. In October, two police officers were injured in an attack against the headquarters of the Interior Ministry in Ankara. It had been claimed by the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party.
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