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Turkish police have shot dead two women who attacked a police station in Istanbul's Bayrampasa district with guns and hand grenades, Anadolu Agency reported on Thursday.

Two female militants of the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) have been killed after opening fire at a riot police station in Istanbul's Bayrampa?a district on the morning of March 3. 

Two police officers were wounded in the ensuing clashes. 

An anarchist group “Antistate Makhnovists” assumed responsibility for the attack against the Turkish Consulate in Thessaloniki on Sunday, December 20, by releasing an announcement on their website on Thursday. They said they were responsible for the 40 firebombs and stones hurled at the consulate by 60 individuals.

Armed people wearing masks have clashed with police after a funeral held for two alleged female militants, who were killed in a police operation in Istanbul, when armed men shot down a police drone at the scene.

Greece is gripped by 24-hour strike action on Thursday called by the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) and the Greek Workers Association (ADEDY) in reaction to the Greek budget reforms and the demolition of Greek workers rights.

Ukrainian authorities have moved to ban the use of names of 520 Bolsheviks from the Soviet Union and famous Communist figures as part of its "de-communization" law.

The Russian desire to reach the ?warm waters? of the Mediterranean goes back to before the First World War. The copyright belongs to foreign minister Sergei Sazonov of Tsarist Russia. Sazonov was actually the third signatory of the infamous Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, along with Britain and France, aiming to divide the collapsing Ottoman Empire into zones of control.

General secretary of Greek Communist Party (KKe) Dimitris Koutsoubas voted at Nea Ionia polling station and said that everyone should go to vote and that with a powerful KKE “we will be able to get a better future for us and our children”.

The implementation of the memorandum after the elections is pre-determined, Greek Communist Party (KKE) secretary general Dimitris Koutsoumbas to ANT1 TV channel.

“Nobody is talking any more about the first 100 days. Everything has been voted,” he said.

According to the French News Agency, six people, including a 7-year old child and 3 civilians were killed in the ongoing clashes between the Turkish special forces and the Kurdish PKK rebels in two separate incidents in Turkey, Thursday.