She was allegedly a member of the Marxist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).
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Kurtulmus also reiterated Davutoglu’s call to stand against terror after a deadly suicide bombing in Suruc on Monday, which killed 32 people.
Backed up by helicopters, police raided addresses in several Istanbul districts in search of members of IS, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and other militant groups, it added.
Separately, Turkey’s semiofficial Anadolu news agency reported Wednesday that the suspect’s name was Seyh Abdurrahman Alagoz.
As a result of the terrorist attack in Suruc on July 20, at least 32 people were killed and almost 100 were wounded, said the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus.
It has emerged that one of the women in the viral image, Çağla Seven, 27, sustained serious injuries but survived the bombing that claimed the life of her friend, lying beside her.
Following a recent surge in violence in Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated southern regions, authorities detained over 250 people in 13 cities across the country on Friday.
“Whether or not this group is really related to the PKK, or if this was done on an individual level, or if the claim statement was a propaganda attempt is being investigated by our intelligence and our security forces”, he said at a news conference.
Referring to his discussions with Washington on Wednesday – which finalized Turkish permission for U.S. warplanes to use Incirlik air force base to fight against Daesh – Erdogan said: “In that conversation we confirmed our commitment to the fight against terrorist organizations alongside Daesh”.
This comes as Turkey is one of the main supporters of Takfiri militancy against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, with reports showing that Ankara actively trains and arms the militants operating in Syria, and also facilitates the safe passage of foreign terrorists into the country, which has been gripped by crisis since 2011.
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On Thursday, another policeman was killed in the majority Kurdish city of Diyarbakir.
