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“If America continues to back Turkey’s policies it is possible it will lose the Kurds“, he said.

The last police officer killed died in clashes near a police station in Istanbul in the northwest of the country. Elsewhere across Turkey, at least eight people were killed and a dozen injured in a series of incidents aimed at security and police officials.

One of the attackers was killed during the bombing, while two others and a police officer died in a subsequent firefight, the Istanbul governor’s office said.

ISTANBUL (AP) – Two assailants opened fire at the heavily-protected U.S. Consulate building in Istanbul on Monday, touching off a gunfight with police before fleeing the scene, Turkish media reports said.

One of the assailants – a woman – was injured in the crossfire and was captured inside a nearby building where she hid, the private Dogan news agency reported. The Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army-Front, or DHKP-C, identified the US embassy in Istanbul...

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha also raised the possibility of shutting the Thai Embassy in Turkey after protesters attacked the honorary consulate in Istanbul, smashing windows and ransacking parts of the building, over the expulsion of the Uighurs back to China.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Uighurs have fled China in recent years.