Russian citizen revealed to be suicide bomber who attacked Istanbul police

A female suicide bomber who detonated herself at an Istanbul police station in the touristic area of Sultanahmet has been identified as a Russian citizen named Diana Ramazova.

A policeman, Kenan Kuma?, was killed in the suicide attack by a woman at the Tourism Police Station on Jan. 6.

The investigation was conducted by the police and the National Intelligence Organization (M?T).

It was reported that "foreign phone numbers" were found in the cellphone of the assailant, who spoke Russian with a taxi driver before the attack. The clues reportedly led the police to believe that the woman might be Chechen.

Before the suicide bomber's identity was revealed by the authorities, it was claimed that the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), which had fired guns in another attack on the city's police a week ago, could also be behind the Sultanahmet attack.

Although the DHKP/C had initially claimed the Sultanahmet attack, the family of the alleged bomber, Elif Sultan Kalsen, said the body at the morgue did not belong to their daughter.