The US Consulate in Istanbul has been fired on by two assailants, hours after a suspected car bomb attack at a police station.

 

No-one was hurt in the attack on the consulate building, but the two shooters fled after a gun battle with police, Turkey's Dogan news agency reported.

 

Police arrested a female suspect who was reportedly wounded and hid in a building following the attack, Turkish broadcaster NTV said.

 

She is believed to be a member of the far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front, or DHKP-C. 

 

Officers armed with automatic rifles have cordoned off streets around the consulate in the Sariyer district on the European side of the city.

 

Earlier, two attackers were killed and at least 10 people were injured following the explosion at a police station in the Sultanbeyli area of the city, according to Turkish media.

 

Police said a car bomb exploded near the station, causing a fire that collapsed part of the three-storey building.

 

The city's police headquarters said in a statement that three police officers and seven civilians were wounded in the attack, but did not confirm the number of people killed.

 

Four police officers were killed and one was seriously wounded in a separate attack in southeast Turkey, Reuters reported.

 

In southeastern Sirnak, one soldier was killed and seven others wounded when a military helicopter was brought down by Kurdish separatists, according to security services.

 

Turkey has been on heightened alert since launching what officials described as a "synchronised war on terror" last month against Islamic State in Syria and Kurdish militants in northern Iraq.

 

The DHKP-C, whose members have also been among hundreds of suspects arrested by Turkish authorities in recent weeks, claimed an attack on the US embassy in Ankara in 2013 which killed a Turkish security guard.

(Sky News)