A minister said the order for the attack on Istanbul's Istiklal Avenue was given in Kobani, a city in northern Syria, where Turkish forces have carried out operations against the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in recent years.
ISTANBUL, Nov 14 - Turkey's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu blamed Kurdish militants on Monday for a blast that killed six people in Istanbul's main shopping street, and said police had detained 22 suspects, including the person who had planted the bomb.
"The person who carried out the incident, left the bomb, was detained. Previously, around 21 other people had been detained," Soylu said. Istanbul has been targeted in the past by Kurdish, Islamist and leftist militants. An offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party claimed twin bombings outside an Istanbul soccer stadium in December 2016 that killed 38 people and wounded 155.
Video footage obtained by Reuters showed the moment the explosion occurred at 4.13 p.m. , sending debris into the air and leaving several people lying on the ground, while others stumbled away.Ankara says the YPG, which Washington has supported in Syria, is a wing of the PKK.
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