ANKARA
One terrorist was killed and a second one was badly hurt in a fire exchange following a rocket attack at police house Friday night in Dikmen, Ankara.
At least 5,000 armed policemen started a manhunt in the Turkish capital when the assailants were identified by means of security cameras only five minutes after the attack.
Police dogs and helicopters started searching for the terrorists in Dikmen, Keklikpinari and Oran districts as police cordoned off some of the roads and blocked the escape routes from the area.
Muharrem Karatas and Serdar Polat, both members of DHKP-C terrorist organization were cornered up by very determined police force in Keklikpinari’s Akpinar neighborhood. Police responded when terrorists started firing at them after they were asked to surrender and Muharrem Karatas, who had been wanted by authorities for a rocket attack at ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party’s headquarters in Ankara last March, was killed when he was targeted by bullets and Serdar Polat was seriously wounded.
An RPG & rocket launcher and hand grenades were found with the terrorists.
A police statement said following the incident that the terrorists fired their guns at policemen when they were asked to surrender and the wounded terrorist Serdar Polat was taken to a hospital after the shoot-out. It also said three weapons, including an automatic gun and two hand grenades were found with the terrorists.
It also said in the statement that the killed terrorist, Muharrem Karatas, was a DHKP-C member who attacked at AK Party headquarters on March 19, 2013.
Terrorists launched at least two rockets at the police house (a hotel and social facility for policemen and their families) near police headquarters in Dikmen at about 21:30 Friday night. No casualties were reported after the attack as the rockets only caused structural damages on the building.
DHKP-C is a far-left Marxist terrorist organization that is also responsible of US Embassy suicide bombing that left a Turkish security guard dead and wounded many other people in February 2013.
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