Istanbul police announced today, Monday, the arrest of 46 people regarding the Istanbul explosion, noting that Syria planted the bomb.
The police added that the Syrian woman who carried out the Istanbul attack said that they had received training among the Kurdish militants, that the perpetrator of the attack illegally entered Turkey from the region between Afrin and Idlib, according to Al -Arabiya. net News.
This comes as a senior Turkish official said that it is believed that the Istanbul attack entered the country from Syria, and the attacker is believed to be linked to the Kurdish militants “but we do not exclude the existence of links to ISIS. ”
The Turkish official added that Turkey has angered Kurdish militants and ISIS militants from operations in Syria and Turkey.
Earlier today, Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Sweilo told the Turkish Anatolia News Agency that the person who planted a bomb on Istiklal Street in Istanbul was arrested, killing at least 6 people.
The Turkish government blamed Kurdish militants in the explosion, saying that the police arrested 22 suspects, including the person who planted the bomb. Sweilo accused the PKK of responsibility for the bloody attack in Istanbul.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his deputy Fouad Aktai said earlier that a “woman” is responsible for the attack, but the Minister of the Interior did not talk about that, Monday.
“According to our conclusions, the Kurdistan Workers’ Terrorist Organization is responsible” for the attack, announcing the arrest of a person accused of placing a bomb on Istiqlal Street.
6 people died, and 81 others were injured, on Sunday, during an explosion that shook the busy and pedestrian independence street in central Istanbul in an accident that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said was carried out with a bomb “and the smell of terrorism was smelled. ”
On Sunday evening, Turkish Vice President Fouad Aktai accused a “woman” of “bombing a bomb”, without specifying whether she was among the dead.
In a statement broadcast directly on television, the Turkish president denounced a “sordid attack. ” He stressed that “preliminary information indicates a terrorist attack,” pointing out that “a woman may be involved”, without giving more details, which is the narration that the Ministry of Interior later ignored..
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