Authorities were treating the explosion as ‘a terrorist act’, says country’s vice-president
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for Sunday’s attack, the deadliest bombing in Istanbul since late 2016. Kurdish militants and leftwing extremists have also staged bomb attacks in Turkey’s biggest city in the past.
Turkey is due to hold presidential and parliamentary elections in June next year. The attack could also threaten Turkey’s crisis-hit economy, which relies on tourism for tens of billions of dollars of foreign currency inflows. Authorities imposed reporting restrictions on television and radio coverage on Sunday, instructing them to only report official statements to prevent “turmoil in society that may serve terrorist organisations’ purposes”, according to the government communications directorate.
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