Six people were killed and dozens wounded after a bomb exploded on a popular tourist destination in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Footage from the scene on Istiklal Avenue's shopping strip showed people fleeing from flames moments after the pedestrian street, typically crowded with tourists and locals alike, was bombed. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that perpetrators would be punished. Istanbul's governor reported 53 people wounded from the “treacherous attack," Erdogan said.
In the past, Turkey's Supreme Council of Radio and Television restricted news outlets and social media users from spreading close-up images of blasts and the aftermath of explosions in reports, which the country's media watchdog has imposed again. Businesses were shuttered and the avenue closed down after the bombing, the Associated Press reported.
The blast will be investigated by five prosecutors, Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Sunday's explosion was a reminder of the anxiety and safety concerns that unsettled the Turkish population seven years ago, when the country was attacked by a string of deadly bombings between 2015 and 2017 — carried out by the Islamic State group and Kurdish militants who sought increased autonomy.
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You gotta be a real coward and a maniac to detonate a bomb midday in a populated market. I’m 10,000% that the 6 casualties had nothing to do with the bomber’s conflict.
Cap
What you mean
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The beauty of Islam….
The mecca of terrorism
Their Koran teaches what they reap today!
Before you talk look at america, this happens every week at america. Beauty of christianity
@Viwin Baskaran yea, in a sarcastic way!
@Givi In Quora, it’s mentioned that all the followers of Islam must do Jihad (killing non-followers and treating their females as s*x slaves).
All these things have also been done by their so-called prophet….. He killed over 200K men in a single day and made their wife as his and his follower’s sex slaves…..
Just, What is the world coming too?
So tragic. Wh I did this?
Your mom.
Such blind and dirty attacks must be condemned and prevented all over the world.
Then stop committing them
Mafia
Kurdish mafia answer to Turkish mafia ? Sure
Well 6 victims who died in explosion is now in heaven
All Turkish should go there!
don’t you know for every turkish victim a thousand turk resurrects. 🇹🇷
@Stella Adler but you could call a genocide done by america killing millions of native indians and stealing there lands
Killing 1.5 millions of iraqi and afghanistan for weapons of mass destruction that havent been found since now
@Stella Adler America slaving for 500 years Afro Americans , torturing forcing to work in cotton lands
@Stella Adler tell me who haves more blood in there hands
@Camorra 514 Turkey
Turkey must take very strong & swift action against terrorists. 🤲🇹🇷🤲
Turkey was sending a terrorist to India via Russia a few months ago.
The terrorist was caught in our friend country Russia.
If you feed a snake (Terrorists) in your backyard thinking it will harm others not you then you are very wrong bro.
Sad to see,
Hahaha
Peaceful