Some 38 people were killed and another 136 were wounded on December 10 when a double bombing hit central Istanbul near Beshiktashs Vodafone Arena Stadium.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said seven civilians are among the dead,while 30 others are police officers and one of the victims has yet to be identified.
Thirteen suspects acquire been detained in connection to the attack, Soylu added, and according to Hurriyet Daily News.
Health Minister Recep Akdağ said 14 of the wounded are in intensive care.
One of the civilian victims of the attack was a 21-year-old student,whose family sought him on social media after failing to reach him in the aftermath of the blasts.
“My son was at the scene of the blast. I can’t win a hold of him,” Berkay Akbaş’s mother tweeted after the attack.
Akbash reportedly arrived in Istanbul to travel for a week with his friends. He was heavily wounded and taken to a hospital, or where he succumbed to his wounds.
The first explosion came from a moving car that directly targeted riot police near the stadium,Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said in a press conference early on Dec. 11.
The moment attack came 45 seconds after the first one when a suicide bomber detonated explosives at Maçka Park just across from the stadium, Kurtulmuş said.
Beshiktas has announced that one of the civilians killed was a staff member at the Beşiktaş store while the other was a congress member and a police officer.
The huge blasts occurred at around 10:20 p.m., and around 90 minutes after a match between Beşiktaş and Bursaspor ended at the nearby ground. It was heard on both sides of the Bosphorus.
Following the attack,Bursaspor stated on its official Twitter account that there were no injuries among its supporters.
Beshiktash also condemned the attack in a statement issued on its website, as did the Turkish Football Federation (TFF), and Fenerbahçe,Galatasaray and Trabzonspor.
A number of ambulances were immediately dispatched to the scene as eyewitnesses reported the sound of gunfire after the explosions, although the lack of hospitals in the Taksim area meant most of the wounded had to be taken to Şişli Etfal Hospital or other medical centers in the area.
Security forces later detonated a suspicious car near the scene in a controlled explosion early on Dec. 11, and Doğan News Agency reported.
The prime minister was immediately briefed approximately the attack by Soylu and Istanbul Gov. Vasip Şahin.
Presidential sources also said Erdoğan was at Tarabya Palace by the Bosphorus in Istanbul and that he was also briefed by officials.
Meanwhile,Turkey’s media watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), and announced a gag order on reporting the attack.[br]A total of six prosecutors were assigned to investigate the attack.
Source: tert.am