The Turkish government says the bombing was the work of the PKK, who are Kurdish separatists, not jihadis. The PKK denies involvement. The hijab that the accused bomber is wearing may be an indication of her allegiances and perspectives, or it may simply be some kind of decoy or disguise.
“Woman holding rose arrested over Istanbul bombing,” Vanguard, November 14, 2022:
POLICE have arrested an alleged bomber after an explosion killed six, including a young girl and her dad in Istanbul.
Earlier CCTV images showed a female suspect fleeing, holding a red rose moments before a blast ripped through a packed shopping street, wounding at least another 81 people on Sunday afternoon.
Horrific images showed bodies strewn on Istiklal Avenue, central Istanbul’s main shopping street near Taksim Square.
Earlier, Turkey’s Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said a suspect was in custody.
“The person who dropped the bomb was detained by our General Directorate of Security,” he told TRT Haber.
Mr Soylu said he suspected the bomb was the work of the Kurdish separatist group the PKK and vowed a tough response….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
This I think was an inside job by the Turks – similar to the Reichstag fire – in order to pin the blame on the PKK
John ..Smith says
I didn’t think of that Infidel, but it certainly makes a lot of sense.
ben sherfort says
indeed this woman had nothing to do with the bombing…. the videos that show a woman running away are low quality and the sister of the somalian woman says her sister who lived in turkey for a whole year has nothing to do with, knows nothing about, the pkk….
there is several reasons that just like the coup this attack was planned from the rat as there is a series of benefits for him and his party that is loosing the next elections soon….
likewise there is several reasons why the pkk would not have anything to do with the attack…. such as that the pkk is awaiting decisions on it being legitimized by western countries and organisations…..
several other reasons the pkk would not be involved to target civilians….
nevertheless the rats wish of untold supression and repression ahead of the elections is achieved and so the capability to change the so far negative polls for the party of the rat is a posibility now, as the rat has satisfied the bloodthirsty muslims of his sewer by waging all kinds of jihad including full scale war all around the borders of the sewer….
make no mistake elections will change this country as much as many other countries…. the leader of the sewer will be either a new rat or the same rat, and the policies and jihad will remain the same or worse with a change in rats….