Seven people, including three Turkish police officials and two soldiers were wounded, said Adulhakim Ayhan, mayor of the border town of Akcakale, on private NTV television.
Ozturk and her Turkish colleague, Dr. Ayhan Dede, have been studying the three species of dolphins commonly found in the Bosphorus, a 20-mile long channel which bisects Istanbul, a city of more than 10 million people, and runs from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara.