ANKARA - A female ‘terrorist’ was killed and two police officers were injured in a raid on a ‘cell house’ of an underground leftist group in the Turkish capital on Monday, officials said. The woman was killed in a shootout with security forces in Ankara sparked when she opened fire after calls for her surrender, the city governor’s office said in a statement.| Come out, mitts, air, never alive, blam. |
Police seized two guns in the flat after the operation, the statement said. Bomb experts, aided by sniffer dogs, searched the flat for explosives but it was not clear whether they found anything suspicious, it reported.
The governorÂ’s office did not name the outlawed group to which the dead woman allegedly belonged and gave no details about what prompted the raid.
Several violent far-left groups are active in Turkey. The most prominent is the Revolutionary PeopleÂ’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), held responsible for a number of attacks that have left dozens killed since 1976, including two retired generals, a former justice minister and a prominent businessman. It is listed as a terrorist organisation by Ankara, the European Union and the United States.
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