2 alleged extremists are shot dead during an attack on Turkey’s best-known courthouse

By ANDREW WILKS and MEHMET GUZEL
Associated Press

ISTANBUL (AP) — Two people have attacked Turkey’s most well-known courthouse before being shot dead. Authorities allege the assailants were part of an extremist organization that had been largely inactive in recent years. The interior minister says the man and woman tried to attack a security checkpoint at the Caglayan courthouse in Istanbul and six people were wounded, including three police officers. The justice minister later said one of the civilians died. 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.