Turkey hit by series of terror attacks

Six members of the security forces have been killed in a series of attacks in Turkey amid rising tension between the government and Kurdish militants.
In Sirnak province, four police officers were killed by a roadside bomb and a soldier died when gunmen opened fire on a military helicopter, a BBC report said on Monday.
In Istanbul, a police officer was killed by a car bomb explosion.
Meanwhile, a gun attack on the city's US consulate has been linked to a leftist group.
One of the two women assailants in Monday's attack on the consulate was wounded and detained, and a rifle and other weaponry were seized, Istanbul's governor said in a statement.
She is said to be a member of a radical Marxist group, the Revolutionary People's Liberation Front (DHKP-C). The DHKP-C previously claimed a 2013 suicide attack on the US embassy in the capital, Ankara.
The US consulate said in a tweet that it was closed until further notice.
In the other attack in Istanbul, on a police station in the district of Sultanbeyli, a car bomb was detonated, injuring 10 people, including three police officers.
Two suspected militants were killed in ensuing clashes with police and an injured police officer died later in hospital.
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