Three parties gather to talk anti-terror measures

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım will meet with opposition party leaders on Dec. 14 to discuss the terrorist attack in Istanbul's Beşiktaş district over the weekend, which killed 44 people and wounded over hundred. 

Yıldırım is expected to host main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli at the Prime Ministry's Çankaya Mansion in Ankara, in a meeting scheduled to start at 10.30 a.m. 

The meeting comes as more details emerge about the Dec. 10 attack, which targeted security forces and killed civilians. 

Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said after a cabinet meeting on Dec. 12 that the explosives used in the deadly bomb attack carried out by outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants "are not ordinary ammunition." 

"The pothole [created by the explosion] is very wide and deep. All kinds of technical investigations are being conducted to probe this, with the slightest details taken into consideration. It is understood that the ammunition used is not ordinary," Kurtulmuş said. 

Istanbul police probing the attacks also said that in addition to the explosives of TNT and RDX, the militants also used a third kind of explosive in the mix that did not appear to be familiar to the types of explosives that have previously been encountered. Police also said the material played a role in increasing the impact of the explosion. 

Meanwhile, according to initial police inspections, the vehicle was identified as a black Chevrolet car that was first bought from the Büyükçekmece district of Istanbul on Nov. 9 and then bought second-hand at a notary in the Kartal district of Istanbul on Dec. 6. 

Reports added that the...