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Wednesday 13 January 2016
Suicide bomber kills 10, wounds 15 in Istanbul tourist area
MEHMET GUZEL tial bombers wanted by Policemen secure the historic Sultanahmet district after an explosion in Istanbul, Tuesday, Jan. 12,
SUZAN FRASER Turkey. 2016. An explosion in a historic district of Istanbul popular with tourists killed 10 people and injured
Associated Press “Turkey won’t backtrack in 15 others Tuesday morning, the Istanbul governor’s office said.
ISTANBUL (AP) — A sui- its struggle against Daesh
cide bomber detonated by even one step,” Davu- (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
a bomb in the heart of Is- toglu said, referring to IS by
tanbul’s historic district on its Arabic acronym. “This “Today Istanbul was the as two others last year, was countries pouring across
Tuesday, killing 10 foreign- terror organization, the as- target, before Paris, Co- particularly far-reaching Turkey to Europe.
ers — most of them Ger- sailants and all of their con- penhagen, Tunis, and so because it struck at Tur- “By striking in the heart of Is-
man tourists — and wound- nections will be found and many other areas,” she key’s $30 billion tourism in- tanbul’s old city, which has
ing 15 other people in the they will receive the punish- told reporters in Berlin. “In- dustry, which has already many ... tourists, but few
latest in a string of attacks ments they deserve.” ternational terror changes suffered from a steep de- Turks, (IS) is targeting Tur-
by the Islamic extremists Eight Germans were the places of its attacks but cline in Russian visitors since key’s lucrative tourism in-
targeting Westerners. among the dead and nine its goal is always the same Turkey shot down a Russian dustry,” said Soner Cagap-
The blast, just steps from the others were wounded, — it is our free life, in free so- warplane near the Syrian tay, an expert on Turkey at
historic Blue Mosque and a some seriously, German ciety. The terrorists are the border in November. the Washington Institute.
former Byzantine church in Foreign Minister Frank-Wal- enemies of all free people, Its apparent links to Syria Cagaptay said that by tar-
the city’s storied Sultanah- ter Steinmeier told reporters indeed, the enemies of all also threatened to have geting Germans, Islamic
met district, was the first by in Berlin. The nationalities of humanity, whether in Syria implications in a country extremists also seemed to
IS to target Turkey’s vital the two others killed in the or Turkey, in France or Ger- that is already dealing with be aiming to heighten an
tourism sector, although IS blast were not immediately many.” more than 2 million Syrian anti-refugee backlash in
militants have struck with released, but both were The impact of Tuesday’s refugees and a wave of mi- Europe and deepen the
deadly effect elsewhere in foreigners. The wounded attack, while not as deadly grants from Syria and other anti-Islam sentiment there.
the country. also included citizens of
Turkish Prime Minister Ah- Norway, Peru, South Ko-
met Davutoglu said the rea and Turkey.
bomber was a member of Turkey’s state-run news
IS and pledged to battle agency said Davutoglu
the militant group until it no held a telephone conver-
longer “remains a threat” sation with German chan-
to Turkey or the world. cellor Angela Merkel to ex-
Davutoglu described the press his condolences.
assailant as a “foreign na- “I strongly condemn the
tional,” and Deputy Prime terror incident that oc-
Minister Numan Kurtulmus curred in Istanbul, at the
said he was a Syrian citizen Sultanahmet Square, and
born in 1988. However, the which has been assessed
private Dogan news agen- as being an attack by a
cy said the bomber was Syria-rooted suicide bomb-
Saudi-born. Kurtulmus said er,” President Recep Tayyip
the attacker was believed Erdogan said.
to have recently entered Merkel pledged Germany
Turkey from Syria and was would continue its fight
not among a list of poten- against terrorism.
Iran official denies report of nuclear reactor being sealed
NASSER KARIMI Iran will first sign an agree- reactor and filled it with so it can’t produce pluto- called “disabling” of Arak
Associated Press ment with China to modify concrete. nium for nuclear weapons is a slap in the face of Iran
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s the Arak reactor, a deal The agency, which is close — though it will still produce and allegedly evidence of
deputy nuclear chief on that is expected next week. to Iranian hard-liners, cited small amounts of plutonium Rouhani having given too
Tuesday denied a report “Definitely, we will not ap- unnamed sources for the and heavy water. many concessions to the
that the core of the coun- ply any physical change in report. Iran has insisted it needs West in return to little.
try’s nearly finished heavy this field until a final agree- Under the landmark nucle- the heavy water reactor for It’s not clear what the mod-
water reactor has been ment is finalized,” Zarean ar deal that commits Teh- production of medical iso- ification process at Arak will
dismantled and filled it with added, without specifically ran to significant limits on topes. involve, but officials in the
concrete as part of Teh- mentioning the Fars news its nuclear activities for over Hard-liners in Iran, who past have said that some
ran’s obligations under the agency report. a decade in exchange for oppose Iranian President parts of the reactor need to
nuclear deal with the West. On Monday, Fars said that relief from crippling eco- Hassan Rouhani and the be filled with cements be-
Ali Asghar Zarean, in re- technicians had disman- nomic sanctions, Iran must nuclear deal with world cause of safety concerns.
marks to state TV said that tled the core of the Arak redesign the Arak reactor powers, argue that the so-
