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Twin Blasts In Istanbul Claim 38 Lives, Mostly Police Officers
Turkish forensic police officers work at the site where a car bomb exploded near the stadium of football club Besiktas in central Istanbul. (OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)
The Kurdish Freedom Hawks (TAK), a breakaway group of the militant Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), has claimed responsibility for two bombings in Istanbul Saturday (10 September).
Thirty-eight people, mostly police officers, lost their lives and 155 wounded in the twin bomb attacks in Istanbul, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said in a press conference, as reported by CNN. According to Soylu, a remote control detonated a car bomb for the explosion. Following that, a suicide bomber caused a second explosion.
Numan Kurtulmuş, Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister, claimed that the attack was directed at the police.
Authorities estimate that at least 300-400kg of explosives were used in the car bomb attack. On Saturday, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said:
In his address, the prime minister called out the Islamic State, PKK and a movement affiliated with United States-based cleric Fethullah Gulen for targeting Turkey.
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