Selim Temurci

Ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) Istanbul Provincial Head Selim Temurci resigned from his post on Feb. 9. 

An outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) militant who attacked the Istanbul police headquarters and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters late on Jan. 20 was apprehended by police in the northwestern province of Tekirdağ on Jan. 22. 

Two attacks took place in Turkey on the same day, both in Constantinople. One was against the police Headquarters while the second one was against the local offices of President Erdogan’s political party Justice and Development Party’s(AKP) on Friday.

In both attacks the assailants used LAW anti-tank rockets. It is said that two people were involved in the attack.

Istanbul police on Jan. 21 detained five suspects over the rocket attacks that targeted the provincial police headquarters and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters in Istanbul on Jan. 20 evening.

Security forces raided 15 addresses across Turkey's largest city, and five people were taken into custody over suspected links to the attackers.

Rocket attacks on Jan. 20 targeted police headquarters in Istanbul and the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) local headquarters, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.