Blasts in Turkey

In northwestern Turkey on April 27, a suicide bomber killed herself and injured eight others, none critically, near the Grand Mosque in Bursa, a manufacturing city boasting Ottoman-era architecture.

Among two other suicide bombings reported last month to have taken place in Turkey in March (May ’16, pg. 15) was one on March 19 in Istanbul. Three Israelis (two of whom also were US citizens) and an Iranian were killed and dozens more people were injured when a suicide bomber detonated his device on Istiklal Caddesi, a busy shopping street frequented by travelers. The bomber had links to Daesh (ISIL).