The two attackers, who were killed, were according to the authorities members of the DHKP-C, a far-left organization considered terrorist by Ankara and its Western allies.
One person died and two attackers were shot dead during an attack on a courthouse in Istanbul on Tuesday, Turkish authorities announced.
The attackers, a man and a woman, were killed during a “attempted attack” from a security checkpoint at the Caglayan Courthouse, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on social media.
He added that six people were injured, including three police officers. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan later said one of the civilians had died.
Ali Yerlikaya later identified the attackers as suspected members of the DHKP-C, a far-left group considered a terrorist organization in Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
The DHA news agency reported that the attacker’s older sister appeared as an accused in the Caglayan court just half an hour after the attack. She was accused of belonging to a terrorist organization and possession of dangerous materials.
The DHKP-C has been largely inactive in recent years. In March 2015, he took a prosecutor hostage in the same courthouse, demanding details about the police killing of a teenager during anti-government protests the previous year.
Two gunmen died when police stormed the building, and the prosecutor died of his injuries.
The group also claimed responsibility for a February 2013 suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, in which a Turkish security guard was killed and four others injured.