The Turkish police investigation only lasted a few hours. The young woman arrested and accused of planting the bomb that killed six people in Istanbul on Sunday is of Syrian nationality and has admitted the facts according to the authorities.
According to the police, she admitted having acted “on the orders of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party” (PKK), a group considered to be terrorist by Turkey, and received instructions to this effect in Kobané, in the north-east of the country. Syria. The young woman was arrested with several other suspects in an apartment in the suburbs of Istanbul.
Turkey rejects Washington’s ‘condolences’
According to Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, the suspect was about to “flee to Greece”. Süleyman Soylu, who visited the scene of the carnage again on Monday, announced that 46 people have now been arrested, the day after the attack which hit Istiklal Street, one of the busiest arteries in Istanbul. , Sunday afternoon.
“Operations continue” to arrest other suspects, according to the Turkish Interior Minister, who rejects the “condolences” from Washington. “We do not accept, we reject, the condolences of the United States. Our alliance with a state that maintains Kobané and pockets of terror (…) must be debated”, declared the minister who accuses the fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and some of their allies, supported by the Americans, of to have perpetrated the carnage of Istanbul.
Source: 20minutes
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