Two attackers open fire on US consulate in Istanbul

10 August 2015 17:37

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Two attackers open fire on US consulate in Istanbul

Araz News: August,10,2015,Two attackers opened fire on the U.S. consulate building in Istanbul on August 10 and fled when police shot back,HDN reported.

Those involved in the attack on the building in Istanbul’s Sarıyer district included one man and one woman. The woman was apprehended at a house she took refuge in.

The apprehended assailant has been identified as a member of the outlawed far-leftist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), Hatice Aşık, Anadolu Agency reported.

The report claims that Aşık was trained at DHKP-C cell houses and her photograph was sent to police forces across the country as she was suspected of planning a suicide attack.

Meanwhile, CNNTürk said there were no casualties.

“We’re still working to find out what’s going on,” a spokesman for the US embassy inAnkara told AFP.

The US Consulate in Istanbul announced on its Twitter page that the consulate will be closed to the public until further notice.

Turkey has been in a heightened state of alert since it launched what officials described as a “synchronised war on terror” last month, including air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters in Syria and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants based in northern Iraq, and the detention of hundreds of suspects at home.

U.S. diplomatic missions have been targeted in Turkey in the past.

The outlawed far-leftist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), whose members are among those detained in recent weeks, claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at the U.S. embassy in Ankara in 2013 which killed a Turkish security guard.