Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoglu confirmed, in exclusive statements to “Al Arabiya” and “Al -Hadath”, the continuation of his country’s operations in Syria and Iraq.
“Our operations in Syria and Iraq will not stop,” saidoglu said.
He added: “The strikes of our forces and our own operations carried out by the armed forces and intelligence services will continue against the leaders of the Kurdistan Workers Party and the People’s Protection Units in eastern Syria and northern Iraq.
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17 people had been arrested after the bombing carried out on Sunday in Istanbul, and the authorities attributed it to Kurdish workers’ fighters and their allies in Syria, Turkish media reported Friday.
No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing yet.
Among these detainees is a woman accused of placing the bomb on a seat on Istiklal Street in central Istanbul.
The bombing, which took place at November 13, in this crowded pedestrian street, killed 6 people and wounded 81 others.
The suspects deposited the seventeen, some of whom were accused of providing direct help to carry out the bombing, in Marmara prison, which was called until recently in the name of Silveri prison, located in the outskirts of Istanbul.
51 people were arrested earlier this week.
The main suspect was arrested Ahlam Al -Bashir (23 years), who holds Syrian citizenship and entered Turkey illegally from northern Syria, on Sunday night in an apartment on the outskirts of Istanbul, and she recognized the facts, according to the authorities.
The official Anatolia News Agency quoted a police report that the defendant continued for the first time with the PKK in 2017 through its former boyfriend and remained in contact with the organization after their separation.
The Kurdistan Workers Party and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, which Ankara, as an extension of the PKK, denied any relationship with the Istanbul bombing.
Ankara is classified as “terrorists”, and the United States and the European Union consider the Kurdistan Workers Party as a “terrorist” organization..
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