Terrorist attack in Istanbul on January 12, 2016

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The Sultan Ahmed Square with the obelisk of Thutmose III. (front)
Terrorist attack in Istanbul on January 12, 2016 (Istanbul)
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Location of the attack site in Istanbul

As a result of the terrorist attack in Istanbul on January 12, 2016 at 10:20 a.m. EET (UTC + 2) on Sultan Ahmed Square at the obelisk of Thutmose III. 12 people were killed and 13 injured. A year earlier, a Chechen suicide bomber with ties to IS had carried out an explosives attack there.

Sequence of events

The assassin blew himself up in the midst of a group of German tourists on the busy square between Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque .

According to the Turkish domestic intelligence service MIT , two unspecific terrorist warnings dated December 17, 2015 and January 4, 2016, about which the government in Ankara was informed, had already been issued before the offense .

Victim

Eleven fatalities were German nationals and belonged to a travel group of 33 members who were traveling in Istanbul and then wanted to travel on to Dubai and Abu Dhabi . Among the victims are a retired couple from Falkensee , a couple from Berlin , two men and a woman from Rhineland-Palatinate , a Peruvian, a woman and two men from Saxony and a woman from Westerngrund were killed.

Perpetrator

According to the Turkish government, the attacker is said to have been Nabil F., who was born in Saudi Arabia . According to the Turkish government , the 28-year-old is said to have been a member of the Islamic State terrorist organization . According to a statement from the Doğan Haber Ajansı press agency , he had entered Turkey from Syria shortly before the attack . On January 5, 2016, he registered as a refugee in Istanbul. He could therefore be identified using his fingerprints and a passport found. The identity of the perpetrator has not yet been clarified beyond doubt, as the passport could also be false.

Reactions

After the attack, the Turkish government imposed a news blackout . The media regulator RTÜK announced that the blackout was for national security .

On January 13, 2016, Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière and Ahmet Davutoğlu , Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey , visited the victims of the attack in Istanbul. Your condolences spoke u. a. Ban Ki-moon and François Hollande .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Suicide bomber kills police officers in Turkey. In: Zeit Online . January 6, 2015, accessed January 15, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Eight Germans killed in Istanbul. In: Zeit Online . January 12, 2016, accessed January 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Attack in Istanbul: majority of the dead are Germans . In: Zeit Online . January 12, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  4. ↑ Müller dismayed by the attack in Istanbul - Berliners also killed. In: Focus Online . January 13, 2016, accessed January 15, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b Assassination attempt in Istanbul: number of dead Germans rises to ten. (No longer available online.) In: MSN News. Archived from the original on January 13, 2016 ; accessed on January 15, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.msn.com
  6. ↑ a b Ten dead are Germans. In: Zeit Online . January 13, 2016, accessed January 15, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Attack in Istanbul: Berliner succumbs to injuries. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved January 26, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Foreign Minister Steinmeier: Eight Germans killed in attack in Istanbul . January 12, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  9. ↑ This is the Istanbul suicide bomber. In: The world . January 13, 2016, accessed January 15, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Istanbul: German dies as a result of the Istanbul attack. In: Zeit Online . February 23, 2016, accessed February 27, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Istanbul: This is the suicide bomber in Istanbul. Istanbul Bombing - The Facts . In: Welt Online . January 13, 2016. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
  12. ↑ a b ISIL militant kills 10, injures 15 in Istanbul suicide attack. In: Hürriyet Daily News . January 12, 2016, accessed January 12, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Istanbul: German Victims of Terrorism in Turkey . January 12, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  14. ↑ Davutoglu reports: the Istanbul attacker was a member of IS . January 12, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  15. ↑ Istanbul: The bodies of the victims are transferred to Germany. In: HNA . January 15, 2016, accessed January 15, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Blackout of messages after the attack in Istanbul - reports of numerous Germans among the victims . In: Ruptly . January 12, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  17. ↑ Terrorist attack in Turkey: explosion claims dead and injured in Istanbul . January 12, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  18. ↑ The number of arrests after the attack in Istanbul rises to seven. In: Südkurier . January 14, 2016, accessed January 15, 2016 .


Coordinates: 41 ° 0 ′ 21.2 ″  N , 28 ° 58 ′ 31.4 ″  E