Turkey: US Consulate Attack
The BBC reports that six people have died in an attack on the US consulate in Turkey. Three policemen were among the fatalities in what the US Ambassador to Turkey has called “an obvious act of terrorism.”
Reports quoted police sources as saying the suspects belonged to a Turkish Sunni Islamic fundamentalist group, says David O’Byrne in Istanbul.
The Great Eastern Islamic Raiders Front is thought to have links to al-Qaeda, says our correspondent.
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A witness to the attack, Yavuz Erkut Yuksel, said the attackers had initially emerged from a car and surprised the police officers guarding the building.
“One of them approached a policeman while hiding his gun and shot him in the head,” he told CNN-Turk.
Governor Guler said: “There is no doubt this was a terrorist attack.”
The US ambassador to Turkey, Ross Wilson, said: “It is enough to say they are terrorists who carried out a cowardly and dastardly attack.”
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