Suspect in US consulate attack investigated for terror group links

A Turkish court on Sunday ordered a man to be held in custody over an attack on the U.S. consulate in Istanbul in which six people were killed, the state-run Anatolian news agency reported.

The court ordered that the man, identified only as Dursun P., be held on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist group while prosecutors continued questioning nine other people and prepared an indictment.

Two people were released but might still face prosecution, Anatolian said.

Previously: July 10 | -Turkish police on Thursday detained the suspected driver of the car used in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Istanbul this week, in which 6 people were killed, media reports said.

The car had also been seized and the driver was being questioned at police headquarters, CNN Turk reported.

The Turkish police said Thursday they had detained four people in connection with an investigation into a shooting at the United States consulate in Istanbul a day earlier that left six people dead and two injured.

Three of the suspects were arrested in Istanbul, but few other details are available. Interior Minister Besir Atalay said Thursday that the attack appears to have been a suicide mission.

Three gunmen and three police officers were killed in the gunfire that erupted at the consulate early Wednesday, while a fourth assailant escaped in a car. Two of the injured were police officers who remain hospitalized. The attack was the first on an embassy or consulate in Turkey in five years.