Turkish Interior Minister announces the arrest of the Istanbul bomber

Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu in Ankara, Turkey on 28 January 2021 [Doğukan Keskinkılıç/Anadolu Agency]

Turkish Interior Minister, Suleyman Soylu, announced the arrest of the woman who placed the bomb in the middle of Istiklal Street in Taksim Square, located in Istanbul. Soylu revealed that the security services in Istanbul managed to arrest the person who placed the bomb on Istiklal Street, accusing the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) of being behind the explosion, which killed six people and injured dozens. He pointed out that the explosion was caused by the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the Syrian branch of the PKK in the Syrian Kobane (Ayn Al-Arab) region. Soylu added that it seems that the woman who carried out the operation came from the Afrin region in northern Syria. The Turkish media broadcast the moment the […] Source

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