{"id":183323,"date":"2022-11-14T19:53:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T16:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=183323"},"modified":"2022-11-14T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T16:54:08","slug":"a-syrian-woman-who-was-said-to-be-behind-the-istanbul-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/a-syrian-woman-who-was-said-to-be-behind-the-istanbul-bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Syrian woman who was said to be behind the Istanbul bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-183331\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221114638040066185394692.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221114638040066185394692.jpeg 660w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221114638040066185394692-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A woman has confessed to the bombing of a busy Istanbul shopping street according to Turkish police, after she was arrested in a raid by armed Turkish police on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Ahlam Albashir was named and paraded in videos released by Turkish authorities, after the Syrian national allegedly confessed to being trained as a special intelligence officer by the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK).<\/p>\n<p>It followed earlier claims by Turkey\u2019s interior minister, who accused Kurdish militants in Syria of being responsible for the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The PKK has since denied it had any involvement.<br \/>\nThe bombing took place on Sunday on Istanbul\u2019s Istiklal Avenue \u2013 a popular shopping and dining street leading to Taksim Square, with arrests now totalling 46 people.<\/p>\n<p>It was later revealed that Albashir was captured in CCTV images carrying a single red rose as she allegedly fled the scene of the bombing, which killed six people and left a further 81 injured &#8211; six of whom remain in intensive care.<\/p>\n<p>It also followed the release of footage which showed a lone female sitting on a nearby bench for more than 45 minutes, before leaving a bag and fleeing the scene moments before the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The Istanbul Police Department has said it has now sifted through footage from more than 1,200 security cameras, following raids across 21 locations.<br \/>\nFurther images released show the moments after police raided a residential property, showing Albashir on the floor with officers pointing guns at her.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s believed Albashir entered Turkey illegally through Afrin, a Syrian border town and planned to flee to Greece following the attack,<\/p>\n<p>Wearing a purple hoodie, Albashir could be seen with her hands cuffed in front of her between to Turkish flags.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-183329\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/515095.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/515095.jpeg 660w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/515095-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-183330\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/515149.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/515149.jpeg 660w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/515149-210x300.jpeg 210w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/515149-293x420.jpeg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-183331\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221114638040066185394692.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221114638040066185394692.jpeg 660w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221114638040066185394692-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has confessed to the bombing of a busy Istanbul shopping street according to Turkish police, after she was arrested in a raid by armed Turkish police on Monday. 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