Turkey police kill 2 women after attack on police station
The state-run Anadolu Agency, without citing a source, said the women were identified as members of the banned far-left group, the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army-Front, or DHKP-C.
Security camera footage showed the women firing at a police bus outside a riot police station in Istanbul’s Bayrampasa neighborhood and also hurling a hand grenade, before apparently taking aim at the police station.
Special forces police quickly surrounded the building and launched an operation after the pair ignored calls to surrender and opened fire on officers, NTV television reported.
A fragile peace process with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, collapsed in July, reviving a three-decade conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people since 1984.