According to the latest balance, 81 people were injured. Turkish police have arrested 46 people, including the woman suspected of planting the bomb. Turkey designates the PKK as responsible.
This was said by Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu eight deceased persons at the terrorist attack on busy Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul, Turkey, according to the latest official assessment. In addition, there is 81 injuredtwo of them seriously.
According to the EITB’s special envoy to the Middle East, Mikel Ayestaran, on his Twitter account citing Al Yazzaera sources, the minister has updated the death toll.
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As far as the investigation is concerned, Turkish police have made arrests so far 46 people for his alleged connection to the attack. Among them is the woman suspected of planting the bomb. It is a woman of Syrian nationality, responding to the name of Ahlam Albashir. Albashir is said to have received his education in Kobane (Northern Syria) in a center of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Turkish police confirmed on Monday that the prime suspect has confessed that “she was trained as a special intelligence agent by the terrorist organization PKK/PYD/YPG”.
For now though no one has claimed authorship of the explosion.
According to Fahrettin Altun, spokesperson for the Turkish presidency, the attack is “a direct and indirect consequence of some countries’ support for terrorist groups”.
“The international community must pay attention. Terrorist attacks against our citizens are a direct and indirect result of some countries’ support for terrorist groups,” he said. Ankara is to blame US, Sweden and Finland to support and fund the PKK.
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Source: EITB
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