Istanbul bombing

An Istanbul court has sentenced the main perpetrator of the deadly bombing on the city's bustling İstiklal Avenue in November 2022 to seven aggravated life sentences and an additional 1,790 years in prison.

Turkish authorities detained 17 people in connection with an attack at an Istanbul campaign event for upcoming municipal elections, Turkey 's interior minister said Sunday.

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya provided no details on the assailants' affiliation or motive for the attack that critically injured a woman.

Three defendants have been released in the case of the 2022 terrorist bombing that claimed the lives of six people on İstiklal Avenue, one of the tourist hotspots in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district.

The trial continued in relation to the terrorist bomb attack on İstiklal Avenue on Nov. 13, 2022, in which six people were killed and 99 were wounded.

Turkish security forces have "neutralized" a total of 995 PKK/YPG terrorists since the beginning of the year within the intensified operations, including ones conduced across the border in Iraq and northern Syria, the Defense Ministry has announced.

Turkey's aerospace and technology event Teknofest Istanbul will kick off on Sept. 17 at the Atatürk Airport.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on April 21 condemned multiple bomb attacks in Sri Lanka that killed at least 185 and wounded over 400 people.

Turkey has been the target of a series of terrorist attacks over the past years. Kurdish militants dubbed by Turkey as terrorists and the Islamic State are the two main perpetrators of attacks that have shocked the coutry.

The death toll in the deadly Istanbul bomb attacks has risen to 44, Health Minister Recep Akdağ announced on Dec. 12.

Some 36 police officers were among the victims, Akdağ said.  

The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), an offshoot linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), claimed responsibility for the attack on Dec. 11.

The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), an offshoot linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack outside near Beşiktaş's Vodafone Arena Stadium that killed 38 people and wounded 155.

Thirty seven people, thrirty police officers and seven civilians, were killed and 166 wounded in Saturday’s twin bombings in Istanbul.
The explosions, one large blast followed by a smaller one, occurred about 11 p.m. local time (3 p.m. ET) after a heavily attended football game at Besiktas Vodafone Arena.