The bodies of those killed in Tuesday’s attack, which has been blamed on the Islamic State group, were put on a plane at Ataturk International Airport to be flown back to Germany for burial. Ala said the bomber wasn’t on any Turkish or global watch lists for IS militants.
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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said Tuesday the attack was carried out by a member of ISIL. This brings to the attention the many weaknesses of Turkish-Syrian relations. “It is a person who entered normally, as a refugee, as an asylum-seeker”.
As a response to the attacks in Istanbul, Turkey has started to shoot on IS positions in Syria and Iraq.
A spokesman for the YPG militia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
He added, “I see no reason for cancelling trips to Turkey”.
As well as Daesh, Turkey is concerned about support for PKK terrorists in Germany, where there are an estimated 14,000 PKK supporters, according to a recent report by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency.
Since the summer, ISIS has killed more than 140 people in Turkey while renewed fighting between Turkish security forces and Kurdish rebels has transformed chunks of the southeast into war zones. Turkish media, including some close to the government, identified him as Nabil Fadli and said he was Saudi-born.
Following the November attacks in Paris, Germany Committed Tornado reconnaissance jets to aid the military effort against the Islamic State group in Syria and started flying missions from the Incirlik air base in Turkey last week.
It denies the suggestions, pointing to tighter border controls and the rounding up of hundreds of suspects.
Prime Minister Davutoglu said a day after the Istanbul bombing that Turkish officials suspected “certain powers could be using Daesh”, an Arabic term for Islamic State. Nonetheless, authorities think the two suicide bombers of the afore mentioned attack were actually working for the Islamic State.
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“Now all our work is focused on revealing these and other links”, the security official said.
