The individual accountable for bomb assault at Istiklal Avenue, a primary nearby pedestrian pathway in addition to a visitor enchantment in Istanbul, has been arrested with the aid of using the police, stated Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu on Monday. Citing Minister Soylu, Anadolu Agency shared the information of the arrest thru their Twitter account early Monday morning. According to Anadolu Agency, Soylu blamed terrorist businesses from Ayn al-Arab for the assault. He stated, “Our evaluation is that the order for the lethal terror assault got here from Ayn al-Arab in northern Syria, wherein the PKK/YPG has its Syrian headquarters.”
“We will retaliate in opposition to individuals who are accountable for this heinous terror assault,” he added. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has been across the world indexed as a terrorist employer with the aid of using Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and different contributors of the European Union, in line with the country’s MFA website.
The bomb explosion on Sunday left six humans dead – 4 on the scene and at a hospital, in line with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Speaking earlier than his departure to the G-20 summit in Bali, Erdogan known as the explosion some thing that “smells like terrorism”, and stated that its perpetrators might be punished. About eighty one humans had been wounded following the assault. Turkey has been hit with comparable lethal bombings among 2015 and 2017 with the aid of using the Islamic State and outlawed Kurdish businesses.
