Istanbul/Ankara — A car bomb exploded outside a court in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir, Turkey, on Thursday, sparking a gun battle in which at least two suspects were killed, state media and local officials said. Ten people were injured in the blast, Izmir municipality secretary general Bugra Gokce told broadcaster CNN Turk. A security source said police had shot dead two attackers following the blast, and the state-run Anadolu news agency said they were searching for a third. Hospital sources said ten people had been brought in wounded. Turkey faces multiple security threats. It has been hit by a series of bombings over the past 18 months, some of them blamed on Islamic State (IS), others on Kurdish militants. Turkish police detained several new suspects on Thursday in fresh raids over a nightclub attack that killed 39, as authorities tightened borders to prevent the fugitive killer from escaping. A top official said the attacker was likely a Turkic Uighur and reports have indic...
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