A fighter proclaiming allegiance to Islamic State appeared in a
video this week urging Turks to rebel against "infidel" President Tayyip
Erdogan and help conquer Istanbul, highlighting the threat to the NATO
member state.
Two detained after shooting outside Istanbul palace - news agency
Turkish police detained two suspects with automatic weapons after a shooting on Wednesday near the entrance to Istanbul's Dolmabahce palace, popular with tourists and home to the prime minister's Istanbul offices, the Dogan news agency said.
Ambulances
were sent to the area around the building and roads were sealed off by
police, but there were no reports of casualties. Dogan said the
attackers had targeted police officers stationed at the entrance to the
palace.
Some local media reports suggested there had also been an explosion but there was no independent confirmation of this.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutolgu was in the capital Ankara as reports of the attack emerged and did not interrupt a speech being broadcast on live television.
Turkey
has been in a heightened state of alert since launching a "synchronised
war on terror" last month, which included air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria and Kurdish militants in northern Iraq.
A
fighter proclaiming allegiance to Islamic State appeared in a video
this week urging Turks to rebel against "infidel" President Tayyip
Erdogan and help conquer Istanbul, highlighting the threat to the NATO
member state.
Turkey also faces a threat from far-leftist militants.
The
leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C) claimed
responsibility earlier this month for an attack on the U.S. consulate in
Istanbul, in which two women shot at the building. One of the attackers
was hurt in an exchange of fire but there were no other casualties.
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