Communism

The Turkish government vowed to fight against terrorism on April 1, a day after an Istanbul prosecutor and two hostage takers were killed in an operation in Istanbul?s Ça?layan courthouse after a six-hour crisis.

Two suspected members of the outlawed DHKP-C group have been killed in an operation to free a captive Turkish prosecutor on Tuesday in Istanbul.

The prosecutor, however, has also died after being seriously injured during the operation that led to his rescue.

Suspected members of the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) have taken prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz hostage at Istanbul courthouse in connection to the case into the killing of Gezi victim Berkin Elvan.

Gunshots have been heard at the building.

Mehmet Selim Kiraz, a public prosecutor leading the probe into the death of Gezi victim Berkin Elvan, has been taken hostage by members of the The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP/C) in an Istanbul courthouse.

Shocking images have been circulating on the Internet over the last hour, showing a man holding a gun to the head of Kiraz.

Colombia will stop air raids on Marxist FARC rebels for a month, President Juan Manuel Santos said Tuesday, a major stride in a peace process aimed at ending Latin America's longest-running civil war.
      

The Colombian government and leftist guerrillas on March 7 jointly announced an agreement to remove landmines and other explosives from the battlefield in a sign of progress in their two-year-old peace talks being held in Cuba.
   

Istanbul police detained a man in front of the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul on Feb. 27, after he threatened to detonate a bomb he said he was carrying.

Turkish police sealed off a street outside the consulate after the suspect was detained.

According to a poll published on Wednesday, 83 per cent of Albanian support opening up the files of the Communist-era secret police, known as the Sigurimi.

Roughly 71 per cent of respondents to the poll said if the files were opened to the public, public institutions should be "lustrated" of former agents or collaborators of the Sigurimi.

The family of Elif Sultan Kalsen, who has been announced as a terror attack suspect and a suicide bomber on several occasions, has cried foul, saying they feared for their daughter's safety after "groundless claims."

An attacker who opened fire on a police post in Taksim Square, one of Istanbul's most popular spots, on Jan. 30 was identified by the police as Elif Sultan Kalsen, a member of the illegal far-left group, the Revolutionary People's Liberation/Party Front (DHKP/C).