Gunmen injure 2 officers in Istanbul
Unknown gunmen have opened fire in the Okmeydani district of Istanbul in Turkey, wounding two officers, Turkish media report.
The officers were attacked near the Cemal Kamacı Sports Complex in the largest city of Turkey on Saturday evening, Turkish newspaper Today's Zaman reported.
The injured officers were rushed to a nearby hospital to receive treatment following the assault.
Witnesses said that the assailants fled the scene of the shooting attack.
Security forces have launched a massive manhunt to arrest the attackers.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack. Members of the security forces have been attacked in various parts of Turkey over the past few days.
The latest assault comes days after two Turkish police officers were found shot dead in the country’s southeastern province of Sanliurfa near the border with conflict-ridden Syria on Wednesday.
Turkey’s Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) later claimed responsibility for the killing, saying the officers were cooperating with the Takfiri ISIL terrorist group.
The developments came in the wake of a bomb attack in the town of Suruc located in southern Turkey near the Syrian border, which killed at least 32 activists on Monday. The bombing was attributed to the ISIL terrorist group, which controls parts of Iraq and Syria.
A series of cross-border attacks by the ISIL militants also claimed the life of a Turkish soldier on Thursday.
In response, Turkish warplanes launched a wave of aerial raids against ISIL hideouts in Syria and extended the bombing campaign to military positions of Turkey's Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in neighboring Iraq.
The PKK has declared that the group will no longer uphold a shaky peace agreement with Ankara following the aerial attacks.
Ankara has been engaged in a long conflict with the PKK, which has been seeking an autonomous Kurdish region inside Turkey since the 1980s.
The aerial attacks on ISIL come as the Turkish government has been one of the main supporters of the terrorist groups fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since 2011, with reports showing that Ankara actively trains and arms the militants operating in Syria, and also facilitates the safe passage of would-be foreign terrorists into the country.
Apart from Turkey, the US and its regional allies, including Qatar and Saudi Arabia, also support the militants operating inside Syria.
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