{"id":200437,"date":"2016-03-20T15:16:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T15:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=200437"},"modified":"2016-03-20T15:16:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T15:16:34","slug":"turkey-blames-isis-for-istanbul-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=200437","title":{"rendered":"Turkey blames ISIS for Istanbul bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The suicide bomber who killed four people in Istanbul&#8217;s main shopping street belonged to so-called Islamic State (IS), the interior minister says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Efken Ala named the man as Mehmet Ozturk. He told reporters that five people had been questioned so far.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Ala announced a review of security measures and curfews in seven Turkish provinces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three Israelis &#8211; two with Israeli-US nationality &#8211; and an Iranian died in the attack. Another 36 were injured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eleven Israelis were among the injured. Two Irish citizens, one national each from Germany, Iceland, Dubai and Iran were also injured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The coffins of the Israeli nationals were being flown out on Sunday. The Israeli government advised its citizens to avoid Turkey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have determined that Mehmet Ozturk, born in 1992 in Gaziantep, carried out the heinous attack on Saturday in Istanbul,&#8221; Mr Ala told a news conference in the capital Ankara<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<figure style=\"width: 976px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/1558C\/production\/_88863478_88863477.jpg\" alt=\"Coffins of Israeli victims are prepared for transfer to Israel at Ataturk Airport, 20 March 2016.\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As the bodies of the Israeli victims were being repatriated, Israel advised its citizens against going to Turkey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It has been established that he is a member of Daesh,&#8221; he said using another name for IS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey is part of the US-led coalition against IS and allows coalition planes to use its air base at Incirlik for raids on Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been attacked by IS in the past &#8211; most recently in January when a suspected suicide attack in Istanbul killed 12 German tourists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And more than 100 people died outside Ankara railway station in October 2015 when IS militants carried out a double bombing close to the headquarters of the national intelligence organisation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kurdish militants have claimed a number of recent attacks in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said terror groups are targeting civilians because they are losing their struggle against Turkish security forces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suicide bomber who killed four people in Istanbul&#8217;s main shopping street belonged to so-called Islamic State (IS), the interior minister says. Efken Ala named the man as Mehmet Ozturk. He told reporters that five people had been questioned so far. Mr Ala announced a review of security measures and curfews in seven Turkish provinces. 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