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Istanbul Attack (other)
Istanbul attack may refer to the following: Pre-21st century * Occupation of the Ottoman Bank, in 1896 * Yıldız assassination attempt, in 1905 * Istanbul pogrom, in 1955 * Taksim Square massacre, in 1977 * Beyazıt massacre, in 1978 * Neve Shalom Synagogue massacre, in 1986 * 1999 Istanbul bombings (Shopping center, Bahçelievler district) ** Blue Market massacre 21st century 2000s * January 2001 Istanbul bombing (Police station, Şişli) * September 2001 Istanbul bombing (Beyoğlu district) * 2003 Istanbul bombings (synagogues, HSBC and British consulate) * 2004 attack on Istanbul restaurant (Kartal district) * 2004 Acıbadem bombing * Assassination of Hrant Dink, in 2007 * 2008 United States consulate in Istanbul attack * 2008 Istanbul bombings (Güngören district) * 2009 Istanbul bus attack 2010s * 2010 Istanbul bombing (Taksim Square) * 2012 Istanbul suicide bombing (Sultangazi district) 2015 * 2015 Istanbul suicide bombing (Sultanahmet district) * Istanbul Justice Palace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Occupation Of The Ottoman Bank
The occupation of the Ottoman Bank ( tr, Osmanlı Bankası Baskını, "Raid on the Ottoman Bank"; hy, Պանք Օթօմանի գրաւումը, ''Bank Otomani k'ravumĕ'' "Ottoman Bank takeover") by members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnak Party) took place in Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, on 26 August 1896. In an effort to raise further awareness and action by the major European powers, 28 armed men and women led primarily by Papken Siuni and Armen Garo took over the bank which largely employed European personnel from Great Britain and France. Stirred largely due to the inaction of the European powers in regard to Hamidian massacres started by Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The Armenian Revolutionary Federation members saw its seizure as their best attempt to bring full attention to their plight. The Ottoman Bank, at the time, served as an important financial center for both the Empire and the countries of Europe. Armed with pistols, grenades, dynamit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Istanbul Bus Attack
In November 2009, Molotov cocktails were thrown at a bus and set ablaze in Istanbul. 17-year old Serap Eser was badly burnt and died in the hospital, after a while in coma. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was blamed and still to this day some Turkish officials and pro-Turkey media outlets accuse them. In 2015, former Interior Minister İdris Naim Şahin later stated “I have unfortunately learned that the people who sabotaged the bus, throwing Molotov cocktails, were members of MİT”. The newspaper Daily Vatan (which has since ceased publication in 2018) reported that a suspect in the case stated, they were member of MİT (Turkey's intelligence agency, sometimes involved in clandestine events) and that the MIT also had responded to the court confirming this, saying the suspect known as "A.S." had been used as an intelligence operative in a number of incidents. In 2012, the then Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş stated that the MIT was resp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istanbul Nightclub Shooting
The Istanbul nightclub shooting (also known as Reina massacre in Turkey) was a mass shooting incident on 1 January 2017 around 01:15 am local time, in which a terrorist shot and killed 39 people and wounded 79 others at the Reina nightclub in the Ortaköy neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey, where hundreds had been celebrating New Year's Day. Uzbekistan-born Abdulkadir Masharipov was arrested in Istanbul on 17 January 2017. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed credit for his actions. The first hearing in the trial of Masharipov and 51 accused accomplices was held on 11 December 2017, and the next hearing was held on 26 March 2018. Background From the 2016 northern summer, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had been under pressure and had sustained significant territorial losses due to three parallel offensives: the Turkish-Free Syrian Army Western al-Bab offensive and Battle of al-Bab, the Syrian Democratic Forces' Northern Raqqa offensive, and the Battle o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
December 2016 Istanbul Bombings
On the evening of 10 December 2016, two explosions caused by a car bombing and suicide bombing in Istanbul's Beşiktaş municipality killed 48 people and injured 166 others. 39 of those killed were police officers, 7 were civilians and 2 were perpetrators. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) assumed responsibility, claiming that their members killed more than 100 police officers. Background Earlier in 2016, Turkey had been hit by a number of bombings carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK). The deadliest of these had been the Gaziantep bombing, killing over 50 people. According to Turkish T24 newspaper, this was the seventh terrorist attack in Istanbul in 2016. The Atatürk Airport attack was the deadliest attack to have occurred in Istanbul in 2016. On 10 December 2016, the TAK took responsibility and claimed to have killed 100 police officers. In their statement, the group stated that Turkish people are not the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 2016 Istanbul Bombing
On 6 October 2016, at around 15:50 (UTC+3), a bomb attached to a motorcycle blasted in a terrorist attack in Yenibosna neighborhood of Bahçelievler district, Istanbul, Turkey. The bomb targeted a police office, however, either on purpose or not, the bomb was exploded before getting closer to the police station and eventually injured 10 civilians in the area, putting 1 in critical condition. The neighborhood is one of the closest ones to the Atatürk Airport and Istanbul Inner Beltway and is a neighborhood where Bosniak residents of the city mainly live. The attack was perpetrated by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The assailant, Felek Gün and co-conspirators Ekrem Gün and Serdar Gün along with 3 more suspects involved in the incident were taken into custody by the police. Assailant had a terrorism record with the outlawed group in both Iraq and Syria, incursing into the Turkish town of Cizre from area controlled by YPG in Syria during the recent Cizre clashes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Atatürk Airport Attack
The Atatürk Airport attack, consisting of shootings and suicide bombings, occurred on 28 June 2016 at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Gunmen armed with automatic weapons and explosive belts staged a simultaneous attack at the international terminal of Terminal 2. Three attackers and forty-five other people were killed, with more than 230 people injured. Monitoring group Turkey Blocks identified widespread internet restrictions on incoming and outgoing media affecting the entire country in the aftermath of the attack. Media reports indicated that the three attackers were believed by Turkish officials to have come from Russia and Central Asia. Turkish officials said the attackers were acting on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and had come to Turkey from ISIL-controlled Syria. Commentators suggested that the attacks may have been related to stepped-up pressure against the group by Turkish authorities. No one claimed responsibility for the attack. Backgro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 2016 Istanbul Bombing
On 7 June 2016, at around 08:40 (UTC+3), a bombing occurred in central Istanbul, Turkey, killing 12 people and injuring 51 others, three of them seriously. The attack targeted a bus carrying policemen as the vehicle passed through the Vezneciler district near the Şehzade Mosque and the Vezneciler Metro station. Background Istanbul had already been hit by two deadly bombings in January and March 2016, both of which had been claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Turkey was on high alert due to repeated bombings; two other attacks in Ankara in February and March that killed dozens were claimed by the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), described as a "radical splinter group of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)". Bombing The attack targeted Çevik Kuvvet police forces that were changing guard in front of the Faculty of Sciences and Literature of Istanbul University. The attack occurred on the Şehzadebaşı Avenue, in front of a hotel between the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 2016 Istanbul Bombing
On 19 March 2016, a suicide bombing took place in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district in front of the district governor's office. The attack occurred at 10:55 ( EET) at the intersection of Balo Street with İstiklal Avenue, a central shopping street. The attack caused at least five deaths, including that of the perpetrator. Thirty-six people were injured, including seven whose injuries were severe. Among those injured were twelve foreign tourists. Among those killed, two were of dual Israel-US nationality. On 22 March, the Turkish interior minister said that the bomber had links with ISIL. Background The bombing was the fourth suicide bombing in Turkey in 2016, and occurred six days after a bombing in Ankara that left 37 people dead. The United States embassy in Ankara had issued a terrorism warning to its citizens the day before the bombing for Istanbul, Ankara, İzmir and Adana. The German embassy had also issued a security warning to its citizens three days before the bombing. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 2016 Istanbul Bombing
On 12 January 2016, a suicide attack in Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet district killed 13 people, all foreigners, and injured 14 others. The attack occurred at 10:20 local time, near the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia, an area popular among tourists. The attacker was Nabil Fadli ( ar, نبيل فضلي), a Syrian member of the Islamic State. Background The last major attack on Sultanahmet Square occurred on 6 January 2015, when a suicide bomber detonated herself at a police station. The DHKP-C initially took responsibility for the attack but later retracted this claim. It was later revealed that the suicide bomber was Diana Ramazanova (russian: Диана Рамазова), a national of Dagestan origin with links to ISIL. In 2015, Turkey suffered two major bombing attacks. In July, 33 people were killed in an ISIL suicide attack in the town of Suruç, near Turkey's border with Syria. In October, two suicide bombers detonated explosives which killed more than 100 pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Sabiha Gökçen Airport Bombing
The Sabiha Gökçen Airport bombing took place on 23 December 2015 in the apron area of Sabiha Gökçen International Airport in İstanbul, Turkey. The explosion, which occurred at approximately 02:05 local time, wounded two airport cleaners, one of whom later died after being taken to hospital. Flights from the terminal resumed as normal while Binali Yıldırım, the Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication, claimed that there had been no security lapses at the airport. Witnesses initially claimed that they heard three successive blasts, though their cause was unknown and investigators refused to rule out terrorism as a motive. ''The Daily Telegraph'' claimed that the blast was most likely caused by a bomb. The explosion occurred while the Turkish military had been continuing its armed operations against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the south-east of the country, causing unrest and tensions between Kurdish citizens and the Turkish state ever since a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Istanbul Metro Bombing
On 1 December 2015, a bombing occurred on the Istanbul Metro, Turkey. An explosion caused by a pipe bomb occurred at around 17:15 near Bayrampaşa—Maltepe station in Bayrampaşa, Istanbul, injuring five people. References External links * {{coord missing, Turkey Metro bombing Metro bombing December 2015 crimes in Europe December 2015 events in Turkey Improvised explosive device bombings in 2015 Metro bombing Bombing A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy. Detonations inflict damage principally through ground- and atmosphere-transmitted mechan ... Terrorist incidents in Turkey in 2015 Terrorist incidents on railway systems in Europe Terrorist incidents on underground rapid transit systems Building bombings in Turkey Attacks in Turkey in 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istanbul Justice Palace Siege
On 31 March 2015, a hostage crisis occurred in the Şişli district of Istanbul, Turkey, at the Istanbul Justice Palace. The public prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz, who conducted the investigation of the Berkin Elvan case, was taken hostage by the members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP-C). After the incident, the building was evacuated and security measures were taken by the police. Members of the organization gave a list of requests to the police while threatening to kill the prosecutor. In the incident that lasted about nine hours, Prosecutor Kiraz was killed by DHKP-C militants. The two attackers were also killed. Background Berkin Elvan was seriously injured when hit on the head by a tear-gas canister fired by a police officer on the morning of 16 June 2013 during the Gezi Park protests. He remained in a coma until 11 March 2014 when he died. Several protests began in Turkey and in other cities around the world following this incident. Further polariza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
