Turkish authorities have identified the prime suspect of the Istanbul bombing as a 23-year-old Syrian national who said she took orders from the PKK/PYD/YPG terrorist organisation in Syria - police statement
Istanbul police teams identified the female suspect based on her physical appearance, determined via images caught on security cameras near the site of the explosion that killed six people and injured 81 on the busy pedestrian street.
Turkish authorities have detained dozens of suspects, including the prime suspect who is believed to have planted the bomb that killed 6 people and injured 81 on Istanbul's famous Istiklal Avenue. The prime suspect, identified as 23-year-old Syrian national Ahlam Albashir, said she had taken orders from the PKK/YPG terrorist organisation's headquarters in Ayn al Arab in northern Syria, the Istanbul General Security Directorate said in a statement on Monday.
A total of 46 suspects were detained after police carried out operations at 21 addresses after inspecting footage from 1,200 security cameras, police said in a statement released on Twitter. "If we had not caught the perpetrators [of the bomb attack in Istanbul], they would have fled to Greece today," Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said in a separate statement.Olayla ilgili başlatılan çalışmalar çok yönlü olarak devam etmektedir.
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