The attacker could be linked to the armed group PKK | The US reaffirms its alliance with Turkey to combat terrorism
The Turkish authorities have announced in the early hours of this Monday that they have arrested the woman suspected of having perpetrated the suicide bombing on the busy Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul, Turkey.
Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu has informed the media that the person who allegedly left the bomb that caused an explosion that has left at least six dead and 81 injured She has been arrested by the Istanbul Police Department.
“The person who threw the bomb has been arrested. The PKK/PYD terrorist organization is in the framework of our findings. In the near future, we will show them a reward where those who caused us this pain can experience more and more pain,” Soylu told TRT television.
The leader of the ministerial portfolio has linked through this message to the attacker with the PKK armed groupwhom he has pointed out as ultimately responsible for the incident.
“The face of terror is bitter, but we will continue this fight to the end no matter the cost. Especially the insincerity of our so-called allies, who hide all the terrorists who seem to be friends of ours in their own country, or give life to terrorists in the areas they occupy, in the areas they rule, and send them money from their own senates, is obviously disingenuous,” Soylu said.
A suicide attack perpetrated this Sunday on Istiklal Avenue has caused the death of six people, while 81 have been injured, finding themselves two of them in serious condition.
The Vice President of Turkey, Fuat Oktay, confirmed that it is an attack in which a woman, a “kamikaze” detonated the explosive.
Istanbul has been hit by several explosions in the past, including a suicide bombing in Istiklal in 2016 by a suspected member of the Islamic State that cost the lives of five people.
In the same year, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Kurdish militias, considered by Turkey to be a terrorist organization, claimed the responsibility for a bomb attack that killed 38 people outside a soccer stadium in the Besiktas area of central Istanbul.
US reaffirms its alliance with Turkey to fight terrorism after attack
The United States reaffirmed on Monday its alliance with Turkey to combat terrorism after the bomb attack which caused at least 6 deaths and 81 injuries this Sunday, two of them in serious condition, in the central Istiklal street in Istanbul.
“The United States strongly condemns the act of violence that took place in Istanbul, Turkey. Our thoughts are with those who were injured and we send our deepest condolences to those who lost loved ones,” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
“We stand shoulder to shoulder with our NATO ally Turkey in the fight against terrorism,” added the spokeswoman, who is in Bali with US President Joe Biden, who will participate in the G20.
Turkey is one of Washington’s key allies in the Atlantic Alliance, especially for its aid in the fight against terrorism in the Middle East.In 2016 there were several terrorist attacks in Turkeymost of the networks of the Islamic State jihadist group, in Istanbul, one of them on Istiklal street itself.
However, after the massacre caused by a jihadist on New Year’s Eve of that year in a nightclub on the banks of the Bosphorus, there were no more attacks in the city.