3 people killed in alleged extremist attack at Turkey’s largest courthouse

By ANDREW WILKS and MEHMET GUZEL
Associated Press

ISTANBUL (AP) — Two people attacked Turkey’s largest courthouse before being shot dead in an exchange of fire that also left one other person dead and five wounded. Authorities say the assailants were part of an extremist organization that had been largely inactive in recent years. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya says the man and woman attacked a security checkpoint at the Caglayan courthouse in Istanbul, and then were killed in an exchange of fire. Authorities say that one other woman also was killed in the gunfire, and that three police officers and two civilians were wounded. Private news agency DHA reports that the elder sister of the female attacker appeared as a defendant at the courthouse shortly after the attack on charges including membership in a terrorist organization.