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More Terror In Istanbul
« on: March 03, 2016, 11:22:08 AM »
Two women opened fire and threw a grenade on the streets of Istanbul before barricading themselves in a government building.

The attackers targeted a riot police bus as it drove towards the police station in the Bayrampasa district of Turkey's biggest city.

Police returned fire, injuring one of the women, before tracking them to a nearby building where they are holed up.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3474470/Two-women-fire-weapons-street-barricaded-government-building-new-terrorist-attack-caught-camera-Turkey.html



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Re: More Terror In Istanbul
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2016, 11:31:32 AM »

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Re: More Terror In Istanbul
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2016, 11:56:54 AM »
According to some reports two Polis were injured, but fortunately not seriously.

All appears a bit amateurish, it even looks like one of the gun women was throwing a stone!

http://video.zaman.com.tr/iste-bayrampasa-cevik-kuvvete-saldiri-ani_ALfiJGAr.html

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Edit: Ok, specsavers for me, apparently it was a grenade!

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Re: More Terror In Istanbul
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2016, 13:17:55 PM »
Another nail in the coffin :(

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Re: More Terror In Istanbul
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2016, 13:43:26 PM »
Figures for February reported in the Turkish press yesterday...

Visitors to Turkey in February 2016 compared to same month last year

Russians down by 99%

Brits, Germans, Norway etc down by about 30-60%. It varies country to country but you get the gist.

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Re: More Terror In Istanbul
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2016, 14:07:01 PM »
It varies country to country but you get the gist.

Iraq, Iran, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia et al statistics all showing increases, so you can also get the gist there :(

I suspect the press must have had a sneak preview as the February figures haven't been "officially" released yet - the figures for January, year against year, actually show a slight increase in the number of UK arrivals 31,177, up from 30,868 in 2015.  Needless to say, almost all other European countries show substantial decreases with the exceptions of The Netherlands, Austria and Iceland. Go figure that one!

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Re: More Terror In Istanbul
« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2016, 14:29:28 PM »
Iraq, Iran, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia et al statistics all showing increases, so you can also get the gist there :(
Umm, is it that Turkey should start opening casinos to attract more rich arabs?

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Re: More Terror In Istanbul
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2016, 14:36:36 PM »
Re-opening would be more correct  :)

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« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2016, 14:44:59 PM »
Yes, I recall much missed former member Starman saying he used to be a croupier in a Marmaris casino.

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Re: More Terror In Istanbul
« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2016, 07:43:06 AM »
Reports in the papers this morning that there were at least another three attacks in Istanbul yesterday - not as widely reported as the two women, possibly because nothing was caught on camera, but still a concern.

TD's report on these incidents is unusually short:

A service bus carrying judicial personnel and an armored police vehicle were attacked by unidentified assailants in separate incidents in istanbul on Thursday evening.

The service bus was attacked along the TEM highway around 7:15 p.m. No casualties were reported in the attack although but the bullets hit a police car escorting the bus.


In a separate incident, an armored police car was attacked by long-barrel guns in the Beyoğlu district of istanbul. Three assailants opened fire at the police vehicle from a car and then escaped, reports say. No casualties were reported in the incident.


Also on Thursday night, the official car of istanbul-based Fatih Sultan Mehmet University rector was attacked along TEM highway. The driver of the car was injured in the attack while the rector was not travelling in the car.


The Sabah were also pretty quiet about events yesterday, their sole contribution was a few lines about the second and third incidents mentioned by TZ - although they put the second as being a few miles away, in Okmeydanı as opposed to Beyoğlu:

In a separate incident, three gunmen also attacked a police car in Istanbul's Okmeydanı neighborhood, which is connected to Kağıthane and Şişli districts on the European side, Thursday night, police said.

The Hurriyet is unusually quiet about all three incidents, not a mention.

I'm wondering if the government are stepping up their "news blackouts" on terrorist related incidents, maybe "encouraging" the media to down play events.

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