Police detain gunman at Turkish ruling party office in Istanbul
Police detained a gunman who entered an office of Turkey's ruling AK Party in an Istanbul suburb on Wednesday, the private Dogan news agency said, a day after a prosecutor in the city was shot dead as police tried to free him from hostage-takers, Reuters reported.
The man smashed windows on the top floor of the building in the Kartal district on Istanbul's Asian side and hung out a flag before being detained.
Dogan had initially reported that two armed intruders entered the AK Party office.
The incident occurred as judges and lawyers congregated in a courthouse on the European side of the city to mourn the prosecutor who was killed during an attempt by police special forces to rescue him Tuesday.
The two hostage-takers - members of the banned far-leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) - were also killed in the rescue effort.