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Turkish police killed two female leftist militants who hurled grenades and opened fire at an Istanbul police station Thursday, officials said.
Turkey has been on a state of alert for months since a series of deadly attacks on its soil.
In the last year, there were four deadly bomb attacks blamed on ISIS, including the deadliest in Turkey's modern history that killed 103 people in Ankara in October.
Known until the mid-1990s as Devrimci Sol (Revolutionary Left), the DHKP-C has claimed a string of attacks in Turkey in recent months, including a gun attack on the US embassy in Istanbul last year.
Last month, Turkey arrested alleged DHKP-C member Ismail Akkol over the Sabanci assassination and accused him of planning a suicide attack.
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