Istanbul Gunfire Flares: Turkish Guerrillas Strike Party Office
Armed members of the Communist Labour Party's Leninist Guerrilla Units attacked a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and wounding three others. The strike exposed the persistence of far-left political violence in Turkey despite decades of crackdowns and highlighted the deep ideological fault lines running through Turkish politics.
December 19, 2000
26 years ago
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