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| Turkish leftist group claims responsibility for attack on Istanbul police |
| 2015-01-08 |
| [Ynet] The Turkish far-left group DHKP-C has grabbed credit for a suicide kaboom at a cop shoppe in Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet district on Tuesday that killed one officer and maimed another. A female jacket wallah entered the cop shoppe saying in English that she had lost her purse before blowing herself up inside the three-storey building, across the square from the Aya Sofya museum and the Blue Mosque, which are among the main sites for millions of visitors to Istanbul each year. In a statement posted on "The People's Cry" website hours after the attack, the group said the bombing was against the ruling AK Party over the killing of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan, who died in March last year after nine months in a coma from a head wound sustained during an anti-government protest. "It is the same state which shot Berkin Elvan and which protects the thief ministers," the statement said, in an apparent reference to a Monday ruling of a parliamentary commission not to commit four ex-ministers to a higher court over graft allegations. |
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