Post by sevenofnine on Aug 10, 2015 17:16:58 GMT -5
Man Turkey can't get a break
Six members of the security forces have been killed in a series of attacks in Turkey amid rising tension between the government and Kurdish militants.
In south-eastern Sirnak province, four police officers were killed by a roadside bomb and a soldier died when gunmen fired on a military helicopter.
In Istanbul, a police officer was killed in clashes after a car bombing.
Meanwhile, the city's US consulate was attacked by two assailants. A leftist group said it carried out that attack.
The outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Army Front (DHKP-C) made the claim in a statement on its website, which described the US as the "chief enemy of people in the Middle East and in the world".
One of the two women assailants in the attack on the consulate was wounded and detained, and a rifle and other weaponry were seized, Istanbul's governor said in a statement.
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