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Istanbul bomber was Turkish ISIS member
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Turkish member of ISIS Death Eater group was responsible for Saturday’s suicide kaboom in Istanbul that killed three Israelis and an Iranian and maimed dozens of others, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s interior minister said. Efkan Ala identified the bomber as a man born in the southern province of Gaziantep, adding that five people were tossed into the calaboose so far in connection with the bombing. "We have determined that Mehmet Ozturk, born in 1992 in Gaziantep, has carried out the heinous attack on Saturday in Istanbul. It has been established that he is a member of Daesh [Islamic State]," Ala told a news conference broadcast live on television, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS. Israel has confirmed that three of its citizens died in the blast. Two of them held dual citizenship with the United States. An Iranian was also killed, Turkish officials have said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel is trying to determine whether its citizens were deliberately targeted. Eleven of the 36 maimed were Israelis. Saturday’s attack on Istiklal Street, Istanbul’s most popular shopping district, appeared similar to a January suicide kaboom blamed on ISIS that killed at least 12 German tourists in the city's historic center. More than 80 people have now been killed in four suicide kabooms so far this year in Turkey, a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... member that faces multiple security threats. Posted by: Fred 2016-03-21 |
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