Leftist group claims responsibility for attacks in Turkey government offices
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A banned leftist group that carried out a suicide bombing at the U.S. Embassy last month claimed responsibility for attacks on two government offices in the Turkish capital on Wednesday.
Assailants fired a rocket at Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party headquarters and hurled two hand-grenades at the Justice Ministry's parking lot late Tuesday, wounding one person.
The outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, or DHKP-C, said it carried out the attacks in retaliation for a recent police crackdown on its members, in a statement posted on a website linked to the group.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The statement said the group's "warriors" attacked the two building, accusing Erdogan's government of "injustices." It also threatened more attacks.
Hundreds of members of the group were arrested in a series of police raids in the past two months. A security guard was killed in the group's suicide bombing attack at the U.S. embassy in Ankara last month. DHKP-C has claimed responsibility for assassinations and bombings since the 1970s, but it has been relatively quiet in recent years.
DHKP-C is considered as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}U.S. Ambassador Francis Riccardonne visited the ruling party's headquarters on Wednesday to express his country's solidarity with Turkey.