Assailants have opened fire at the US consulate building and carried a bomb attack on a police station in Istanbul, as two different attacks killed five security personnel in southeastern Turkey, according to local media reports.
Turkish media said no consulate staff members were hurt in the attack in the Sariyer district, while at least 10 people, including seven police officers, were wounded in the blast at the police station in the Sultanbeyli district.
Both attacks occurred on Monday morning.
The far-leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front (DHKP/C) claimed responsibility for the attack on the US consulate.
One of the assailants of the attack at the consulate, a female who was wounded during the shoot-out with police, was later captured in an apartment nearby, media said, adding that police was searching for a second suspect, who was reportedly male.
Meanwhile, two suspected police station attackers and a police officer were killed in an exchange of fire at another point of the city later in the morning.
Istanbul saw two attacks on Monday morning: One on a police station in Sultanbeyli (pin on right) and another on the US consulate (pin on left) [Google Maps]
A vehicle laden with explosives was used in the attack that targeted the police station at approximately 1am, police said, adding that a fire following the blast collapsed part of the three-storey building.
In a separate incident, four police officers died in their vehicle in a mine blast in the southeastern province of Sirnak, Turkish media reports said.
A soldier was also killed when Kurdish fighters opened fire on a military helicopter in a separate attack in Sirnak, the military said in a statement.
Air campaigns
Since last month, Turkey's forces have been conducting air strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions in Syria and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in Iraq.
Ankara also agreed to let the US-led coalition use its bases for its fight against ISIL.
The move came after a suicide bombing blamed on ISIL, which killed 32 people, and an increase in PKK attacks in the country.
"The group [DHKP/C] who claimed responsibility for the attack on the US consulate is the same group who attacked the US embassy in Ankara in 2013," Lale Sariibrahimoglu, a military analyst, told Al Jazeera from the capital Ankara.
"The group is known for its anti-American and anti-US stance."
A Turkish security guard was killed in the 2013 attack.
Turkish special forces inspected the site of the attack on a police station in the Sultanbeyli district [EPA]