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The president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, points to a woman as the culprit of the attack in the center of Istanbul, which has left at least six dead and 81 wounded.
“If we say that it is definitely a terrorist act, we can be wrong. But from what the governor (of Istanbul, Ali Yerlikaya) has told me, it looks like terrorism. It is believed that a woman is involved. But a final decision will be made after the investigation,” Erdogan told a news conference in Istanbul.
The Vice President of Turkey, Fuat Oktay, has given the last balance of victims and has also pointed out that it could be a woman who is behind everything. “We are evaluating that it was a terrorist attack committed by a woman who detonated a bomb.” And she insisted: “We are evaluating it as an act of terror.”
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The Turkish Minister of Justice, Bekir Bozdag, has told the channel To Credit“a woman sits on a bench for about 40 minutes and, some time after stand upI know produces an explosion. All data on that woman is currently being analysed. Her name is not yet known. All records are being monitored, some of our colleagues are after her. It is considered a terrorist act. As a result of the investigations, it will be determined which terrorist organization it is. There is no data other than the fragments found at the scene.”
“Efforts to defeat Turkey and the Turkish people through terrorism will fail today as they did yesterday and will fail again tomorrow,” Erdogan said. “Our people can be sure that those responsible for the attack they will be punished as they deserve“, he added.
Devletimizin ilgili birimleri bu kalleş saldırının faillerini ve arkasındaki mahfilleri ortaya çıkarmak için çalışmalarını sürdürmektedir.
Milletimiz bu saldırının faillerinin tüm unsurlarıyla ortaya çıkartılarak hak ettikleri şekilde cezalandırılacağından emin olsun.
— Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (@RTErdogan) November 13, 2022
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the explosion. But Istanbul and other Turkish cities have been targeted kurdish separatists, Islamist militants and other groups in the past, including in a series of attacks between 2015 and 2017.
The latest attack in Turkey took place on April 20, when a prison guard died and others nine were injured in the explosion a bomb by the bus that was transporting them to their place of work, near the city of Bursa, in the northwest of the country.
Site of the attack in Istanbul.
Most of the attacks in recent years were attributed to Kurdish independence and jihadist activism. In 2016 there were several terrorist attacks in Turkey, the majority of the jihadist group’s networks Islamic State in Istanbul, one of them in Istiklal street itself.
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On October 10, 2015, the worst attack in the history of Turkey. It was in Ankara, the capital of the country, during the demonstration organized in a rally for peace, work and democracy. There, 102 people lost their lives and 246 were injured, in a double suicide attack carried out by the Islamic State.
The latest One of the largest attacks in Turkey was on January 1, 2017, an armed man caused 39 deaths and 69 injuries in a nightclub in the city of Istanbul. The alleged perpetrator, identified as Abdulkadir Masharipov and of Central Asian origin, was arrested days later.
