A suspected ISIS suicide bomber detonated a bomb in an historic district of Istanbul, Turkey today, killing 10 people, all tourists, and wounding 15 others. The slain were identified as nine Germans and one Peruvian. The wounded haven’t all been identified but are also believed to be chiefly tourists.
Turkish deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus identified the attacker as a 28-year-old from Syria. Though no other officials directly confirmed this, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu also said the attacker was an ISIS member.
There has been no claim of responsibility yet, however, and Turkey isn’t exactly short on would-be attackers, with an ongoing war against their Kurdish minority and intermittent suicide attacks from a Marxist-Leninist group that also operates around Istanbul.
Still, targeting tourists in general does seem in keeping with ISIS strategy, and is likely to damage Turkey’s tourism industry, as ISIS attacks have in the past in places like the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. The Turkish government announced an array of new security measures in the district, but panic prevails for the time being.
Erdogan seems too eager to pin this on ISIS. It makes sense cause most now realize he has been supporting ISIS.
Probably you wouldn’t know what ISIS is.
Your comment is so stupid ; I am speechless.
1 million refugees beein looked after, what your country doing about it? If you have any country.
If USA is your country,then all these problems started when ignorant George W.Bush invaded Iraq based on nothing,and destroyed Army of Saddam instead of using well organised Army of Saddam to maintain order but as a ignoramus man did nothing and Iraq runs by Shia politicians take order from Iran.
This analysis would be to much for you to understand surely.
All these ex Arny of Saddam is ISIS .
What makes you think I supported what Bush did? Bush being bad and an idiot doesn’t absolve Erdogan, who is a hypocrite.