Marxist group claims responsibility for suicide attack on Istanbul police

The leftist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front, or DHKP-C, said in a statement posted online that it carried out the suicide bombing that killed an officer and wounded another in Istanbul on Tuesday. It called the bombing “an act of sacrifice” and identified the suicide bomber as Elif Sultan Kalsen. The group said the attack was aimed at retribution for the death of a 15-year-old boy who died after being hit in the head by a police tear-gas canister in protests in 2013.

Our sacrifice fighter was martyred; a policeman who is the guardian of the thieving, murdering fascist state was punished by death.

Statement posted online by Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front

This is the second attack on police in a week in Istanbul claimed by the group. Last week, police subdued a man after he threw grenades and fired a weapon at officers near the prime minister’s offices. The DHKP-C, which seeks a socialist state, is considered as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union.

World DHKP-C