[Hurriyet Daily News] A Turkish police officer has been captured in footage while taking down a female myrmidon after she opened fire on the U.S. consulate building in Istanbul with another assailant.Attackers were hard-line lunatic lefties, rather than PKK or ISIS...
Dogan News Agency released the footage on Aug. 10, hours after the assailant was detained after being maimed by police.
In the footage, the policeman warns the myrmidon who escaped into an apartment building near the consulate, before firing at her legs when she refused to raise her hands. Police continued searchs to detain the other assailant, a male myrmidon.
Two attackers open fire on US consulate in Istanbul
[Hurriyet Daily News] Two assailants opened fire on the United States consulate building in Istanbul on Aug. 10, fleeing the scene when police shot back. One of the assailants, a woman, was captured in a building where she took shelter.
Two assailants, later identified as two women by the Istanbul Governor's Office, attacked the well-guarded U.S. Consulate in Istanbul's Sariyer district, but no casualties were reported, according to the Dogan News Agency.
One of the assailants, later defined as Hatice Asik, a member of the outlawed far-leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C) by the state-run Anadolu Agency, was seized inside a house close to the consulate, which she had entered in order to hide from the police.
Asik was reported to have been discharged from prison on July 8, after being imprisoned for membership of the DHKP-C.
The DHKP-C's website grabbed credit for the attack on the U.S. Consulate and also acknowledged the attacker to be Asik, Agence-La Belle France Press reported.