According to government information, the two attackers were killed in an attack on an Istanbul court. They are said to belong to a left-wing extremist party. Another person died and several were injured.
According to official information, Turkish police have repelled a terrorist attack on an Istanbul courthouse. The attackers, a woman and a man, were dead, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on the X platform.
They therefore belonged to the left-wing extremist party DHKP-C, which has carried out attacks in Turkey in the past. According to the minister, six people were injured, including three police officers. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan later said one of the injured civilians had died.
After the attack in Istanbul, police officers stand guard in front of the courthouse.
Already in 2015 attack Courthouse
Pictures showed people fleeing into the building in panic, while shots could be heard outside the building. A police helicopter circled over the building.
The courthouse had been the scene of armed attacks in the past. In 2015, a prosecutor was killed in the courthouse after the DHKP-C took him hostage. The DHKP-C is classified as a terrorist organization in Turkey, the USA and the European Union.
The group also claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on the U.S. Embassy in Ankara in February 2013, which killed a Turkish guard and injured four others.
Uwe Lueb, ARD Istanbul, tagesschau, February 6th, 2024 12:56 p.m