Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced that the leftist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party was behind the shooting, which took place on Tuesday in front of a court in Istanbul.
Yerlikaya said, in a tweet on his official account on the “X” platform:
- Today, there was an attempted terrorist attack on a checkpoint in front of Gate C of Çağlayan Court.
- The attackers “EY” and “PB”, two members of the left-wing Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party, were neutralized.
- In the attack, 6 people were injured, including 3 policemen and 3 citizens.
Shooting in front of a court in Istanbul
What do we know about the left-wing Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party?
According to the information sheet, published on the website of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, regarding this party:
- DHKP-C is a terrorist organization.
- The Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) is designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union, and the United States.
- The party was originally formed in 1978 as Devrimci Sol, or Dev Sol. It was a breakaway faction of the Turkish People’s Liberation Party/Front.
- It was renamed DHKP-C in 1994 after factional infighting.
- The party’s ideology is Marxist-Leninist, and it aims to overthrow the Turkish state through violence and remove the American and NATO presence in Turkey.
- DHKP/C tactics are armed attacks, assassinations, suicide bombings and bombings.
Most notable DHKP/C attacks
- On February 1, 2013, a suicide bomber attacked the US Embassy in Ankara, killing a Turkish security guard and wounding three others.
- On 31 March 2015, two members of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party took Prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz hostage in an Istanbul court and later killed him.
- On August 10, 2015, the party carried out an attack on the US Consulate General, which did not cause any casualties.
- The last DHKP/C attack occurred in mid-2019 in Ankara.
- February 6, 2023, two gunmen (a woman and a man) carried out a shooting operation in front of a checkpoint in Caglayan Court, leaving 6 people injured, before they were neutralized.
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2024-02-06 10:15:00
