ANKARA: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said that one of the bombers that perpetrated the twin blasts in central Istanbul last week came from Syria a week before the incident.
“One of the PKK members came from Syria a week before the terror attack,” he said.
Two bombs exploded in a terrorist attack in central Istanbul last Saturday, close to Macka Park. One of the explosions was due to a suicide bomber and the other was a car packed with explosives.
The attacks left 38 people dead and 155 wounded. 14 of the wounded are currently under intensive care.
A day later, the terror attacks were claimed by PKK’s suicide team, the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK).
In the north of the war-torn country, the PKK’s Syrian branch PYD and its armed wing YPG established the so-called “cantons” on the Turkish border. Despite claiming to be two separate organizations, both groups usually exchange arms and militants, also collaborating in terror attacks in Turkey.
One of the suicide bombers that attacked Ankara, Abdulbaki Somer also came from Syria.
