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Two people were killed and six others were injured in a shooting in front of a courthouse in Istanbul, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said in a social media post that it was a terrorist attack targeting a checkpoint outside “Gate C” of the massive courthouse complex informally known as “Çağlayan Courthouse.” He identified the assailants by their initials, E.Y. and P.B., a man and a woman, and said both were members of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C). Three policemen and three civilians in the area were injured in the attack. Authorities later announced that there was another assailant involved in the attack and that he/she was captured with injuries while fleeing after the shooting. The incident comes months after a similar attack in front of the police headquarters in the capital Ankara in October last year, which PKK terrorists had claimed.
Footage from the scene circulated on social media showed two motionless bodies lying on the ground in the wide square outside the courthouse. Other footage showed people taking cover inside the building, which houses multiple courtrooms. The courthouse building was sealed off for hours following the attack.
The building’s formal name is the “Mehmet Selim Kiraz Compound,” and it was named after a prosecutor who was killed by DHKP-C terrorists who took him hostage for hours on March 31, 2015. Serving mainly Istanbul’s European side, it is one of the busiest places of its kind and was hosting a large crowd when the attackers apparently tried to force their way inside on Tuesday morning.
Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç said prosecutors launched an investigation into the attack.
