Twin attacks on US consulate and police station in Istanbul leave many dead

Istanbul, the largest city of Turkey faced twin attacks on the U.S. consulate and a police station as tensions built up over the government's air campaign against Kurdish militants. It seems a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives at a police station in the Sultanbeyli district on the Asian side of Istanbul just after midnight. The attack wounded 10 persons, three of them were from the police. The clashes with police apparently went on throughout the night as other militants fired on the police station.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 10 August 2015.

Two militants were killed by police but their political links have not been established. One policeman also died in the clashes.
In the meantime, two militants, one of them a woman, attacked the US consulate in the district of Istinye on the Bosphorus on the outskirts of the city. The woman was wounded and captured.
Moreover, four Turkish police officers were killed in a roadside bomb attack in the Silopi district of Sirnak province that borders Iraq and Syria – this attack was blamed on Kurdish militants. And, a Turkish soldier was killed in yet another attack when militants targeted a military helicopter with rocket launchers as it was transporting personnel in Sirnak's Beytussebap district.
This attack led to an aerial operation by the Turkish military with Cobra helicopters bombing the area. (Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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