Twelve people were detained on Thursday in İstanbul in an operation against the terrorist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C).A team from the İstanbul Police Department's counter-terrorism unit aided by special ops police officers raided a flat in the Okmeydanı neighborhood where suspected members of the terrorist group were staying early on Thursday, breaking in when the suspects tried to prevent the police from entering. The suspects set fire to some organizational documents and shouted slogans. The officers used tear gas to help capture them and called firefighters to the scene.
Twelve of those present were then detained and taken to the İstanbul Police Department for questioning.
DHKP/C is a left-wing terrorist group which has intensified its terrorist activities targeting public servants and state buildings in the past year. The terrorist organization came onto the agenda most recently with the US Embassy attack in Ankara on Feb. 1. A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at the entrance of the embassy, killing himself and a Turkish security guard and critically wounding a journalist on her way to visit the ambassador. Soon after the bombing, the DHKP/C posted a statement on a website, claiming responsibility for the suicide attack, after which the group became the subject of intense scrutiny.
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