Turkish security: involved in Istanbul Syrian nationality bombing received implementation instructions from PKK

Turkish security: involved in Istanbul Syrian nationality

bombing received implementation instructions from PKK

Turkish security announced on Monday that those involved in the Istanbul bombing had admitted that it had carried out the Independence Street attack under the instructions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party.

At 2:50 a.m

we arrested Ahlam al-Bashir

• a Syrian national, in the house where

• she hid after carrying out

• the operation in Istanbul's Essenler area.

Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu said :

Whoever carried out the attack came from northern Syria, took instructions from the Kurdish YPG/PKK in the northern Syrian city of Ain al-Arab/Kobani, and was planning to escape to Greece.

He added:

We monitored a call in which the speaker directed the cell's elements to kill the perpetrator of the attack in order to prevent the circumstances of the attack from being known. We arrested a person in this cell charged with killing the attacker .

Al-Bashir's dreams had entered Turkey from Afrin illegally a week earlier and she had been trained as a special intelligence member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party.

In a related context

Soylu stated that his country did not accept the condolences of the United States Embassy, following the bombing on Independence Street, which killed 6 people and injured 82.

Soylu said :

We do not accept and reject the condolence of the American Embassy.

We know who supports terrorism in northern Syria, and we know what message they wanted to deliver to Turkey through this attack ".

He stressed that it was those who supported terrorist organizations in northern Syria who carried out the attack against us.

Video... Moment of arrest involved in Istanbul bombing inside her home

Turkish media posted video for a moment of the arrest of security services involved in the placement of the bomb on Istanbul's Independence Street, which killed 6 people and injured 82.

On Monday

• Turkey's Minister of Justice

• Bakir Bozdag, announced

• the arrest of 46 suspected detainees.

Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu

 announced that security forces had arrested the person who had placed the bomb on Istanbul's Independence Street, resulting in the explosion that killed 6 people and injured 82.

"Our estimate is that the instructions to carry out

• the attack came from Kobani/Ayn al-Arab

• in the north of Syria, and that the outlet came from Afrin

• in the northern countryside of Aleppo."

This means that the finger is directed

at the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)

• and the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG)

• which Turkey has classified as terrorist groups.

Turkey's Interior Minister has confirmed that

the organizers and perpetrators of the explosion will receive a harsh response, noting that Turkey has not faced such a terrorist attack in about 6 years.

Soylu announced that

50 of the 82 injured in the Istanbul explosion had been discharged from hospitals, telling reporters "currently 50 of the 82 victims have been discharged."

The explosion occurred on Sunday afternoon on Istanbul's tourist independence street. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the deaths of 6 people.

Turkish Vice President Fuad Ahtay later

declared 82 people injured

• noting that the country's authorities considered

• the explosion in Istanbul

• a terrorist attack by a woman.

Turkish security released an image of the suspects carrying out the bloody attack, appearing to walk through the street wearing trousers in military colours and placing a hijab on her head.

Turkish Vice President Fuad Otay stated that

• the country's authorities consider

• Istanbul explosion was likely caused by terrorists

• attack committed by a woman.

We appreciate that this is a terrorist act in which the attacker, who we believe is a woman, detonated a bomb, central Istanbul.

According to him

the number of people injured in the Istanbul explosion had risen to 81, two of whom were in serious condition.

According to preliminary information

the explosion was caused by a bag bomb left at the scene.