Turkey’s interior ministry said the bomb used in the Istanbul attack was assembled based on instructions taken from social media.
This was echoed in statements by Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu at a symposium on cybercrime, where he said that the bomb “was manufactured through social media channels, that is, it was assembled (live), and we have information that that it was planted on a PKK member’s mobile phone called “My Movement” (Haji) and is associated with the United States of America.”
According to Soylu, a woman detained on suspicion of committing a terrorist attack claims she did not know the contents of the package and thought it was a box of chocolates.
On November 13 last year, an explosion occurred on Istiklal Street, a pedestrian street in the center of Istanbul, which killed 6 people and injured 81, as the suspect confessed to her connection with the PKK, then two people were arrested a week after the accident . , is suspected of aiding criminals The terrorist attack at the Turkish border crossing.
Soylu drew attention to the fact that the message about the tragedy came from the Syrian border town of Kobani, and the perpetrator was heading to Turkish territory through the city of Afrin.
Source: News