Bomb attack in Istanbul on June 7, 2016

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Beyazit Square

The bomb attack in Istanbul on June 7, 2016 resulted in 11 deaths, including seven police officers and four civilians, and 36 injured. A few days later, the terrorist organization Freedom Falcons Kurdistan (TAK) claimed responsibility for the attack . It was a suicide attack carried out by a young woman from Kızıltepe . The TAK published their identity a few days after the confession. After approval by the authorities, the assassin was buried. Her coffin was covered by the PKK flag.

Sequence of events

Istanbul University Faculty of Humanities building

At around 8:40 a.m. local time (7:40 a.m. CEST ) , a car bomb exploded in a parked vehicle in front of Istanbul's Vezneciler subway station in the Fatih district , not far from the back of the Faculty of Humanities at Istanbul University and Beyazit Square when a police bus drove by during a changing of the guard.

Reactions

Shortly after the attack, a news blackout was imposed, as is common in Turkey in such cases. During the afternoon, the local security forces arrested four suspects who are said to have rented the vehicle in question.

In politics there were - without waiting for the investigative authorities to find out - various accusations. Turkish President Erdoğan blamed the banned Kurdish Workers' Party ( PKK) for the attack, which at the time no one had claimed responsibility for. The Turkish newspaper Güneş , which is close to the government, blamed Germany's policy on the Armenian question for the attack on the following day .

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  1. ↑ a b c d Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press report dpa from June 7, 2016, 8:45 p.m.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.de
  2. ↑ Istanbul: Militant Kurds profess to attack the police bus. Spiegel Online, June 10, 2016, accessed on the same day
  3. ↑ İşte Vezneciler'i kana bulayan hainler , Milliyet daily newspaper from June 10, 2016
  4. ↑ Vezneciler saldırısı canlı bomba çıktı daily newspaper Hurriyet on June 8,
  5. ↑ After the attack in Istanbul, Erdoğan promises an "eternal fight". In: derstandard.at . June 7, 2016, accessed July 2, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Turkish newspaper blames Germany for attack. In: welt.de . June 8, 2016, accessed July 2, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Assassination attempt in Istanbul: Turkish newspaper calls the attack "German work". In: Focus Online . June 8, 2016, accessed July 2, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Assassination attempt in Istanbul: Turkish newspaper blames Germany for the attack. In: Spiegel Online . June 8, 2016, accessed July 2, 2016 .

Coordinates: 41 ° 0 '46.23 "  N , 28 ° 57' 29.39"  O