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Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul Attacked With Grenade, Guns

Police officer secure the road that leads to Istanbul's Dolmabache Palace on Aug 19, 2015 following an armed attack.

Police officer secure the road that leads to Istanbul's Dolmabache Palace on Aug 19, 2015 following an armed attack.

Photographer: Emrah Gurel/AP Photo
Benjamin Harvey, Isobel Finkel and Selcan Hacaoglu
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Assailants tossed a grenade at a guard post at Istanbul’s Dolmabahce Palace and then opened fire, setting off a gun battle in the center of Turkey’s largest city. No one was killed and two members of a leftist extremist group were detained.

The two suspected attackers were members of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party–Front, or DHKP-C, a group that’s carried out numerous attacks against Turkish and American interests in the country since the 1970s, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.