The Turkish authorities have detained the main perpetrator of Sunday's bombing in Istanbul, which claimed six lives, who is linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist organization, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu told reporters at the scene of the detonation early Monday.
Soylu explained: the Istanbul Police Headquarters detained the person who placed the inferno machine in the busy pedestrian street of the metropolis, Istiklal, on Sunday afternoon.
The Minister of the Interior said: based on the primary investigations, the order for the assassination was issued in Kobani in northern Syria, and the perpetrator is believed to have crossed the Syrian-Turkish border in the Afrin area in northwestern Syria. In connection with the incident, 21 other people were also detained before the assassin, he added. He did not provide any further details.
The President of the Republic, Katalin Novák, expressed her condolences and expressed her condolences to the relatives of the victims and the Turkish nation for the bombing in Istanbul on Sunday afternoon, the Sándor Palace announced.
The explosion took place in one of Istanbul's popular pedestrian streets, according to data from Sunday evening, six people were killed and 81 others were injured in the detonation.
There has been no terrorist act in Istanbul for about six years - Soylu also reminded of the 2016 New Year's Eve massacre in Istanbul at the Reina club on the shores of the Bosphorus.
In his speech, the head of the ministry also reported that 50 of the 81 wounded from the previous day's attack had already been discharged from the hospital. Five victims are in the intensive care unit, and the condition of two people is still serious, he explained.
On Sunday evening, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the incident as a vile attack, stating that Turkey and the Turkish people cannot be held captive by terrorism, as it has been and will not be.
The Istanbul General Prosecutor's Office launched a large-scale investigation into the case.
Turkey was the scene of several bloody terrorist attacks between 2015 and 2017. The overwhelming majority of the attacks were carried out by the Islamic State jihadist terrorist organization or the PKK, which has been waging an armed insurgency in southeastern Turkey since 1984. Hundreds of people lost their lives in the inferno attacks.
In our opening image: Scenes after the explosion in Istanbul. Photo: AFP/Yasin Akgul
Source: magyarhirlap.hu
