Turkey: Two killed as terror attack on Istanbul courthouse thwarted

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).