Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 12
By Orkhan Quluzade – Trend:
The number of victims as a result of the terrorist attack in Istanbul, Turkey, has reached 44, Haber 7 newspaper reported Dec. 12.
Two bombs exploded less than a minute apart at about 11 p.m. (GMT +3 hours) outside a soccer stadium in Istanbul on Dec. 10 night, in a coordinated attack on police shortly after a match between two of Turkey's top teams.
As many as 155 people got wounded in the result of the attack, 14 of them remain in intensive care, according to the Turkish Ministry of Health.
One day of national mourning was declared Dec. 11 in Turkey over the attack.
Earlier, Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) may be behind the attack.
The conflict between Turkey and the PKK, which demands the creation of an independent Kurdish state, has continued for more than 30 years and has claimed more than 40,000 lives.
The UN and the European Union list the PKK as a terrorist organization.
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