Two armed people enter Turkish ruling party office in Istanbul

2015-04-01 11:43:46

(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) The intruders smashed windows on the top floor of the building in the Kartal district on Istanbuls Asian side and hung out a Turkish flag with a white sword motif added to it.

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Istanbul - Two armed people entered an office of Turkey’s ruling AK Party in an Istanbul suburb on Wednesday the Dogan news agency reported a day after leftist militants took a prosecutor hostage in a courthouse in the city.

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The intruders smashed windows on the top floor of the building in the Kartal district on Istanbul’s Asian side and hung out a Turkish flag with a white sword motif added to it footage on the private agency’s website showed.

One of the two a man occasionally shouted from the window to a crowd below but his words were inaudible.

Police cars gathered outside the building.

The incident occurred as judges and lawyers congregated in a courthouse on the European side of the city to mourn the prosecutor who was killed during an attempt by police special forces to rescue him on Tuesday.

The two hostage-takers - members of the banned far-leftist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) - were also killed in the rescue effort.

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