The suspect was detained in Istanbul late on Tuesday, Turkey’s interior minister Efkan Ala said during a news conference with his visiting German counterpart.
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“This terror organization, the assailants and all of their connections will be found and they will receive the punishments they deserve”, said Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
Security forces have arrested dozens of people across Turkey, including three Russian nationals for alleged links with Daesh in the aftermath of the Istanbul attack.
And a week before the attack, 220 people “identified” as IS members were detained in Turkey, interior minister Ala said on Wednesday.
The Istanbul attack, targeting groups of tourists as they wandered around the square, appeared to mark a change in Islamic State’s tactics against Turkey. De Maiziere said those talks will now also address “the determined fight against terrorism”.
Peru’s Foreign Ministry has confirmed that a Peruvian citizen was one of the ten people killed in a suicide bombing in Istanbul, Turkey yesterday.
Ala said Turkey had detained 3,318 people for suspected links to Islamic State and other radical groups since Syria’s conflict began.
Germany’s foreign minister says eight Germans are among the dead in an Istanbul bombing and nine others are wounded, some seriously.
Closure of the border with Syria is not the best way for Turkey to fight terrorism, Armagan Kuloglu, a retired Turkish major general, told Trend in an exclusive interview January 12.
Turkey has been hit by a string of deadly attacks blamed on jihadists over the a year ago, including a double suicide bombing in October in Ankara that killed more than 100 people.
The Russians were detained in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, a popular destination for tourists.
Russia’s consulate in the western city of Antalya confirmed to the Russian state news agency, RIA Novosti, that three of its citizens had been detained, but said it was still clarifying the reasons for their arrest. Families of IS recruits and human rights activists in the Caucasus have described Turkey as the main gateway to Syria for Russian fighters. Regional authorities didn’t identify them but and gave ages only for some, ranging from 51 to 75. Berlin said seven injured Germans were being treated in hospital, five of them in intensive care.
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Turkish newspapers printed words of condolence in German.
