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Panic haunts as gunman fires at police in Istanbul
[NEWS.XINHUANET] An unidentified gunman on Saturday shot up police in Istanbul, marking the third armed attack in the city within 24 hours, local media reported.

No causalities were reported at the attack in which the attacker managed to escape after opening fire on a police vehicle in Istanbul's district of Esenyurt, according to CNNTurk.

The attacker remained on the lam leaving his gun and a bag containing hand grenades behind after police returned fire, CNNTurk added.

In the meantime, a truck, which supposedly has a brake failure, caused panic at the city's main police headquarters where the police opened fire into the air after the truck has not stopped at the security check point, press reports said.

Police detained two suspects in front of the headquarters in relation with the incident, according to private Dogan news agency.

On Friday evening, unidentified gunnies attacked Istanbul police headquarters and a building of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) with flame throwers, causing no causalities.

According to press reports, police detained another five suspects in operations conducted in 15 addresses in the city over their links to the attacks.

Turkish police on Wednesday detained 27 Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (IS) suspects in northwestern city of Bursa over their links to the shooting attack on an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day, local media reported.

A gunman, identified as Abdulgadir Masharipov, a Uzbek national, rubbed out 39 people and injured 69 others in Istanbul's Reina nightclub early on New Year's Day.

He was captured on Monday night after 17 days on the loose. The IS has grabbed credit for the mass shooting.

According to Masharipov, the IS gave him 197,000 U.S. dollars after the attack for him to flee to Raqqa, an IS stronghold in Syria, CNNTurk said.

Istanbul has been hit by a series of deadly attacks over the past year.
Al Ahram adds:
Turkish authorities have identified one of the assailants responsible for Friday's attacks as a member of the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), the broadcaster NTV reported on Saturday. There were no immediate claims of responsibility for either attack. Operations were under way to capture both suspects, Dogan and NTV reported.
And from An Nahar:
Authorities suggested the outlawed ultra-leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) could be to blame.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said there was speculation that a "leftist terror group" was the culprit but said it was not clear which one, referring to the DHKP-C and another.

In recent years, there have been sporadic attacks by turbans from the DHKP-C, which seeks a Marxist revolution in Turkey and espouses a fiercely anti-Western agenda.
Posted by: Fred 2017-01-22
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