Turkish police arrested a woman of Syrian nationalitythat they would have been trained by Kurdish groups, which he accuses of the attack that left six dead in Istanbul on Sunday and more than 80 wounded.
The Istanbul security directorate specified in a statement that the woman, Ahlam Albashir, confessed to it “she was trained as a special intelligence agent by the PKK/PYD/YPG terrorist organization”.
The text alludes to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK for its initials in Kurdish), also outlawed in Turkey with regard to its political wing, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), and the Kurdish militias’ Popular Protection Units (YPG).
The woman allegedly entered Turkey illegally through Afrintown in north-eastern Syria controlled by Turkish and Syrian soldiers, and according to the police he would have received orders in the city of Kobane, also in north-eastern Syria and under the control of the allied Kurdish movements of the PKK.
The The PKK has denied any connection to the attackan explosion that took place in the central Istiklal avenue – an important pedestrian street in Istanbul – which on Sunday caused at least 6 deaths and more than 80 injured and which President Recep Erdogan defined as a “cowardly attack”.
“Our people and the democratic public know very well that we are not related to this incident, that we will not directly attack civilians and that we do not accept actions that target civilians,” the group said in a statement reported by the news agency. Firat press. , which is close to the PKK government.
According to the Turkish Interior Minister, Suleyman Soylu, 46 suspects were arrested, some of them in the same place as the woman. “The terrorists were captured in a successful operation. If they hadn’t been captured, they would have fled to Greece today,” the minister said on the spot.
The explosive device was made of “high-powered TNT,” said police, who say they found a large sum of euro money and gold coins in a bag in the apartment – located on the outskirts of Istanbul. as well as like a pistol and cartridges.
Source: Clarin
