Turkey

Turkish police have detained an individual linked to a Monday attack by two assailants against the US consular service in Istanbul, news websites say.

Apart from one of the assailants, a woman, no-one else has been injured in the attack on Monday morning.

US officials have said on Twitter they are "working with Turkish authorities to investigate".

A soldier has been killed and seven others have been injured after militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) opened fire on a military helicopter in the eastern province of ??rnak.

Up to seven police officers have been wounded by an explosion that rocked the area near a police station in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city.

A car loaded with explosives was used for the attack, according to Russian news agency TASS which quotes Haber Türk TV station.

Two attackers opened fire on the U.S. consulate building in Istanbul on August 10 and fled when police shot back, broadcaster CNNTürk  said. 

Do?an News Agency reported those involved in the attack on the building in Istanbul's Sar?yer district included one man and one woman. The woman was apprehended at a house she took refuge in. 

CNNTürk  said there were no casualties. 

Political uncertainties adds ecnomic risks to the current ones emerging from the armed clashes across the Syrian and Iraqi borders of the country Turkey's economy is considered a highly resilient one by many market observers, analysts and representatives of credit rating agencies, as it is resisting so much uncertainty and fragility.

The United States has deployed half a dozen F-16 warplanes at a Turkish base to help operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the US mission to NATO said on August 9.

Three police officers, Ahmet Ümit Sercan, Muhammet Onur Demir and Salih Hüseyin Parça, died in multiple armed offensives by outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in Turkey's southeast over the weekend, the latest in a series of violent attacks against security forces across the country which have claimed 26 lives over the past month.

The direct channels through which financial problems in Greece can spill over to Turkey are very limited, according to the Senior Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to Turkey, Srikant Seshadri. 

Top officials of Turkey's government and military have visited a border outpost attacked by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants last month.

A Turkish police officer was killed in an attack on an armored police vehicle in southeastern ??rnak province late Aug. 7, increasing the death toll in attacks launched by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to 24 for the past month.