The German foreign ministry said earlier five Germans were still in intensive care.
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German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, who visited the wounded in hospital in Istanbul, said there was “no indication” the attack specifically targeted Germans, saying there was no need to cancel travel plans.
All Turkish dailies Thursday continued to cover the terrorist attack that hit Istanbul’s historical Sultanahmet district, killing 10 people and injuring 15 others, many of them German tourists.
The suicide bomber, who has been identified as Syrian linked to Islamic State (IS), blew himself up in the popular tourist area of Sultanahmet square in central Istanbul.
The attack late Wednesday targeted the police station in the town of Cinar, in the mostly-Kurdish Diyarbakir province, and police lodgings at the compound, the Diyarbakir governor’s office said.
Turkey has seen an increasing number of terror attacks in recent years, a lot of them said to be related to Turkish Kurds’ main militant group, the PKK (the Kurdistan Workers’ Party).
Turkish police arrested five people with direct ties to the deadly suicide attack in Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmetdistrict, announced officials on Wednesday.
In comments published in the Turkish media on Wednesday, a tour guide who had been accompanying the group of German tourists said the bomber “was a young bearded man who looked like a Turk”.
Police also seized documents and CDs during a search of the premises where the suspects were staying, Turkey’s Dogan News Agency said.
Although not as deadly as two attacks in Turkey previous year that were blamed on IS, Tuesday’s bombing had heightened resonance because it struck at Turkey’s $30 billion tourism industry, which has already suffered from a steep decline in Russian visitors since Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border in November.
Turkey has been on high security alert since more than 100 people were killed in twin blasts in Ankara last October.
More than 24 hours after the suicide attack against a group of German tourists in Istanbul still nobody has claimed responsibility for the assassination. Thirty-nine other people were injured.
The attacker, named locally as Saudi Arabian national Nabil Fadli, was a member of Islamic State. He was born in 1988 and was thought to have been living in Syria, from where he was believed to have recently entered Turkey. “Germany and Turkey are becoming even closer”, he said, adding there was no link to Germany’s contribution to the fight against terrorism.
On Wednesday, three more suspected ISIS members were detained in the southern resort city of Antalya.
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The nationalities of the two others killed in the blast were not immediately released, but both were foreigners.
