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Police Kill Two in Istanbul Court Attack; Authorities Investigate as Terrorist Act

<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">In Turkiye, the police have killed two people who allegedly attacked a court in Istanbul today. Six people, including three police officers, were also injured in the incident. The authorities called it a terrorist act.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said, the shooters were killed in a gun battle after they opened fire on a checkpoint near the Caglayan court in Istanbul.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said, prosecutors had launched an investigation into the attack.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The attackers, a man and a woman, were alleged members of the the leftist armed group Revolutionary People's Liberation Party (DHKP-C). The DHKP-C has waged a campaign against the Turkish state since the 1980s.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The attack took place on the day Turkiye was commemorating the anniversary of an earthquake in the country's south that killed more than 53,000 people in 2023.</span></p>

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