March 30, 2016•Update: March 31, 2016
TUNCELI, Turkey
A gunman who opened fire on security personnel at the main offices of the Tunceli governor was killed Wednesday morning, an official statement said.
The attacker has been identified as Onur Polat, 25, from Istanbul. According to a statement on the website of the governor’s office, he was a member of DHKP-C.
Polat opened fire on a sentry box with an assault rifle at around 8.40 a.m. local time (0540GMT) before throwing a grenade that failed to detonate, the statement said. He was then shot dead by guards.
An assault rifle, a handgun and grenades were recovered at the scene. There were no casualties other than the gunman, the governor’s office added.
Tunceli is in eastern Turkey and has been hit by recent PKK terrorism. The DHKP-C is a terror group with its origins in the late 1970s. It has been responsible for a number of attacks on Western and Turkish state targets since the 1990s, including suicide bombings.
