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Bulgaria Arrests 5 Suspects With Ties To Istanbul Blast
2022-11-20
[NPASYRIA] Bulgarian Police arrested on Saturday five people in connection with Istanbul blast that claimed the lives of six people and injured more than 80 others, according to the Bulgarian prosecution service.

Siika Mileva, a spokesperson for Bulgaria’s chief prosecutor, said the detainees were charged with helping one of the people who carried out the bombing, according to ABC News.

Istanbul blast took place on November 13.

They are accused of providing "logistical assistance" to help the person flee.

Anti-Terrorism Department in the Public Prosecutor’s Office in the capital Sofia supervises the arrest process.

Some of the detainees are from Moldova, eastern Europe, and some of them are Arabs, according to Bulgarian media outlets.

The Bulgarian prosecution did not provide further details regarding to the Ottoman Turkish allegations about the source of the attack.

The Ottoman Turkish authorities pointed the finger at the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and published a picture for a woman called Ahlam al-Bashir, purporting that she had received instructions from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)-held city of Kobani, northern Syria, and that she had entered The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
 from Afrin, a city in northwest Syria invaded by Turkey in January 2018.
The Times of Israel adds:
Local television channels said three of the people charged in Bulgaria were from Moldova and a fourth was from an unspecified Arab country. There were no immediate details about the fifth person.

Ottoman Turkish police captured the chief suspect Alham Albashir — a Syrian woman who is said to have been working for Kurdish murderous Moslems — in an Istanbul suburb. Albashir reportedly confessed to planting the bomb during her interrogation.

Albashir said she joined the PKK because of her boyfriend’s influence and maintained her ties to the group after she broke up with him, the Turkey’s Anodolu news agency said.
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