A police crackdown on radical groups in Istanbul led to a five-hour shootout with a leftist militant who hurled explosives and opened fire from an apartment building.
Three people were killed and eight others injured, the government said.
The militant attacked police as they closed in on him Monday during a police sweep against leftist, Kurdish and other radical groups operating in the city. Police rounded up more than 40 people in 60 overnight raids, and the governor of Turkey's largest city said the suspects were planning "sensational armed attacks soon."
The gunman identified by the government as Orhan Yilmazkaya, a top member of the …
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