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And the government blamed Kurdish militants for the explosion.
Istanbul police said on Monday it had arrested 47 people in relation to the attack, including Syrian woman Ahlam Albashir who is believed to have planted the bomb.
Police said that in initial questioning, the woman said she was trained by Kurdish militants in Syria and entered Turkey through northwest Syria's Afrin region.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said the Kurdistan Workers Party, also known as the PKK, and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia were responsible for the attack on the historic and bustling Istiklal Avenue on Sunday.
Soylu said the order for the attack was given in Kobani, a city in northern Syria.
Turkish forces have carried out operations there against the YPG in recent years.
Six Turkish citizens, two members each of three families, were killed in the attack, and dozen wounded.
In a statement on its website on Monday, the PKK denied involvement in the attack, saying it did not target civilians.
Earlier television news reports showed images of a person, who appeared to be a woman, leaving a package below a raised flower bed in the middle of the busy street.
Turkish authorities linked support for the YPG by Washington and others to the blast.
Soylu likened the U.S. condolences to "the murderer arriving as one of the first at the scene of the crime."
"We reject the condolences of the American embassy, ​​we do not accept it. Our alliance with a state that sends money from its own Senate to these groups, feeding the terror zones in Kobani which aims to disturb Turkey's peace, is in a controversial situation. This is open and clear."
The identity of the terrorist who planted the bomb in the attack on Istiklal Avenue was determined.
— Levent Kemal (@leventkemaI) November 14, 2022
Perpetrator: Ahlam Al-Bashir, a Syrian national. pic.twitter.com/vWYKO7eBgo
Turkey Arrests at Least 22 Suspects for Istanbul 'Vile Attack'
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The historic Istiklal Avenue, a famous destination for shoppers and tourists with a tramline, was the scene of an explosive package being left by a person who appeared to be a woman, according to television news sources, according to Rooters.
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no group or organization has taken responsibility for the Istanbul blast, despite the fact that Kurdish and other leftist movements have targeted Istanbul in the past after a twin blast in 2016 left at least 155 people injured and 38 dead.