According to Greek police sources, the Turkish authorities through Interpol sent a signal that a person considered suspicious fled to Bulgaria immediately after the explosion in Istanbul.
The authorities of Turkey’s neighboring countries, including Greece, have been on the alert after being informed by Interpol about a man allegedly related to the bombing in Istanbul who is said to have escaped.
According to Greek police sources, the Turkish authorities through Interpol sent a signal that a person who is considered a suspect fled to Bulgaria. Authorities are looking to identify the possible route taken by the suspect allegedly involved in the bombing in Istanbul that claimed the lives of 6 people, including children.
The Interpol services in all the neighboring countries have been informed about the matter and in this context the signal also reached the Greek authorities.
The description of the father of the Greek woman who was injured in the explosion in Istanbul is shocking, speaking to SKAI: “It’s a miracle”
Shocking are the things he shared with speaking to Elli Kasolis, the father of the Greek woman who was injured in the terrible explosion in Istanbul and who is hospitalized. His daughter, as he says, lives by miracle.
Father of injured person: He was shocked. And she is alive by a miracle because she was saved by a couple who were in front of her, she ate all the shock wave of the explosion and people were killed and behind her was my daughter. And he was injured only in the leg. If it wasn’t for the couple in front of them eating the entire shockwave, she would be dead by now.
SKAI journalist: What did he tell you fell down? What does he remember? How did he describe them to you?
Father of injured person: There was this explosion and there was pandemonium and they took her, put her inside a shop, closed the shutters of the shopkeepers there, all the shops, and until the ambulances came to pick them up and take them to the hospital.
SKAI journalist: Did you talk to her at all?
Father of injured person: Of course we talked, we talked with her.
SKAI journalist: when did you meet If he told you anything, if he is still in the hospital?
Father of injured person: The child is in the hospital. With a cast on the leg, with the fragment in the leg. He is in good health, he is very shocked.
SKAI journalist: Did your daughter tell you them? How is it; Does it last? Does it hold?
Father of injured person: He holds but is afraid to walk. In other words, her leg can’t walk, she can’t bend because it hurts too much. We are waiting for the child to come over here, Mr. Pleuris is doing actions with Mr. Dendias and as time goes by my stomach tightens and I don’t know what will happen.
The injured Greek woman is being transported to Greece
The Minister of Health Thanos Pleuris contacted the lawyer of the family of the injured person in Istanbul, Apostoli Lytra and then her father and in consultation with the Consulate she will be transferred to Greece.
This is the Greek woman included in the list given by the Turkish authorities with the injured from yesterday’s explosion on Istiklal Avenue.
As it became known from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the woman is hospitalized out of danger in a hospital in Istanbul, having been injured by windows that were broken by the shock wave of the explosion. According to the information so far, the woman has a slight injury to her ankle.
The announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs follows:
According to the latest information from the Turkish authorities, among the injured from yesterday’s explosion in Istanbul, there is a Greek woman, who was slightly injured by a piece of glass and is being treated out of danger in a hospital in the city. The consular authorities provide all possible assistance.
The PKK denies any involvement in the Istanbul attack
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) today denied any involvement in the bomb attack that took place yesterday, Sunday, in Istanbul, which claimed the lives of six people. The Turkish authorities blame the attack on the PKK.
“It is known that we have nothing to do with this incidentthat we do not target civilians and reject actions that target them,” the PKK claimed in a statement carried by the PKK-affiliated Firat news agency.
“We are a movement waging a just and legitimate liberation struggle (…) It is therefore out of the question for us to target civilians in any way in Turkey,” the statement, which is signed by the People’s Defense Center, an organization of PKK.
The armed Kurdish separatist movement also accused the Turkish government of having “dark plans” and of “targeting Kobani”.
The Syrian Kurds also deny any connection to the bombing in Istanbul
Syria’s Kurds, backed by Washington, denied today that they have anything to do with bomb attack which cost yesterday, Sunday, the lives of at least six people in Constantinople and for which the Turkish authorities attributed the responsibility to them.
“We assure that our forces have nothing to do with the explosion in Istanbul and we reject them categories against them,” Mazloum Abdi, commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces, whose main component, the YPG militia, has been blamed by Ankara, tweeted.
“The perpetrator confessed – She acted for the PKK” says the Turkish police
The young woman who was arrested and accused of planting the bomb that killed six people yesterday, Sunday, in Istanbul, is of Syrian nationality and has confessed to her act, Turkish police announced today, as reported by local media.
According to police, the Syrian-born woman confessed to acting “under orders from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party” (PKK) and receiving instructions for the attack in Kobani, northeast Syria.
The young woman was arrested along with other suspects in an apartment in Kiucukcekmetce, a suburb of Istanbul.
Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu claimed that the suspect was preparing to “escape to Greece”.
Soylu, who went to the site of the explosion again today, announced that 46 people have been arrested so far, the day after this attack on Istiklal Street, one of Istanbul’s busiest thoroughfares, yesterday, Sunday afternoon.
“Operations are continuing” to arrest other suspects, the Turkish minister said. “They wanted to send us a message, we received it and we will respond in the strictest way,” he stressed.
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