“We consider it a terrorist attack that resulted from an attacker, a woman detonating a bomb according to preliminary information,” Aktai told reporters.
Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erugan announced that there was a woman who participated in an explosion in the Taksim area.
Erdogan said in a televised speech after the explosion that preliminary investigations show a woman’s involvement in the explosion, which killed 6 people and wounded 53 others in the vitality division area in central Istanbul.
But Erdogan did not indicate more information about that woman.
The Turkish president added: “Our concerned authorities continue their work to reveal the perpetrators of this treacherous attack and the parties behind it.
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Turkish media reported that the Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation into a terrorist act against the background of the explosion..
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