She thought she was just being hospitable. Little did she know that her neighbour had brought a terror suspect into her house. A TRT World exclusive about Sunday’s Istiklal Avenue bombing
Istanbul residents commemorate those who died in the Istiklal Street blast on November 13, 2022 with red carnations.
The police scanned hours of footage from security cams following the bombing and the trail led them to Ayse's apartment. The woman she had received as her neighbour's companion turned out to be Ahlam Albashir, a Syrian national who had entered Türkiye through the southern district bordering northern Syria, where the heavy presence of PKK/YPG terror group has been posing a security threat to Ankara.
“I do not know her. I haven’t seen her before…Our neighbour came to our house with her. The woman came as a guest,” Ayse tells TRT World. Showing customary Turkish hospitality, she even made tea for the two guests. “Both had a cup of tea ,” she adds. The Syrian woman later confessed to police that she was trained by PKK/YPG terrorists in Syria and entered Türkiye through Syria’s Afrin region.“She was in black pants and a purple t-shirt when she got to our house. She had another pair of pants in her hand. She threw them in the kitchen. I took them so I could burn them [later] for heat,” Ayse recalls.
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