Eight people were said to have been killed in a wave of separate terror attacks in Turkey yesterday, even as two terrorists opened fire on the US consulate building in Istanbul on Monday, setting off a gunfight with police before fleeing the scene. One of the terrorists a woman was injured in the crossfire and captured inside a nearby building where she was hiding, unitedwithisrael.org reports.
Hours earlier, an overnight bomb attack at a police station in Istanbul injured 10 people, including seven police officers, causing a fire that collapsed part of the three-story building. Police said the assailants exploded a car bomb near the station. Unknown terrorists later fired on police who were inspecting the scene of the explosion, sparking another gunfight with the authorities that resulted in the death of two of the assailants.
The attacks occurred during a sharp spike in violence between Turkey’s security forces and rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. Turkey is also taking a more active role against Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists. Last month it conducted aerial strikes against ISIS positions in Syria and agreed to let the US-led coalition use its bases for its fight against ISIS.
The move followed a suicide bombing blamed on ISIS, which killed 32 people, and after ISIS terrorists fired at Turkish soldiers from across the border in Syria, killing one soldier. On Sunday, the US military announced that it had sent a detachment of six F-16 fighter jets to Turkey’s southern Incirlik Air Base to join the fight against ISIS. United With Israel.
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