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The Kurds in Turkey suffered decades of official discrimination and denial of their culture’s existence.

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.

Turkey’s largest city Istanbul was shaken by twin attacks on the US consulate and a police station that killed one senior officer, while five police were killed in the southeastern Sirnak province in an escalating cycle of violence.

Turkey has seen a sharp spike in clashes between security forces and rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in the a wake of its campaign against PKK targets in Iraq in tandem with airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria. It has also rounded up hundreds...

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...