Turkey arrests suspect with reported link to Istanbul blast

Turkish officials identified the Istanbul bomber as Nabil Fadli, a Syrian born in 1988, who was fingerprinted in Turkey last week while registering as a refugee with immigration officials, but wasn’t on any watch list.

Cross-border strikes into Syria targeted an area around the rebel-held town of Marea, 20 km (12 miles) from the Turkish border and near the edge of a “safe zone” Turkey wants to establish in northern Syria to keep Islamic State at bay.

The Soufan security firm said in an analysis Wednesday that IS was not short on volunteers for suicide missions and the migrant crisis was posing a security challenge for Europe.

British cooperation with Turkey to defeat Islamic State (IS) is being stepped up in the wake of the attack on Istanbul that killed ten German tourists.

“We will reveal all these ties behind IS and we won’t let Turkey be dragged into this circle”, he added.

On Tuesday January 12th, 2016, a suicide bomber unleashed an explosion in one of Istanbul’s main sight-seeing locations, killing 11 civilians and injuring another 15 people.

They included three Russian nationals taken into custody in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, a popular destination for tourists. Core of the investigation should be, who attack and planned, to what extent the terrorist militia “Islamic State” (IS) prepared him and contributed and whether he was deliberately perpetrated on German citizens.

Another police station was attacked with rocket launchers in Midyat town, in the province of Mardin in what appeared to be a simultaneous assault, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

Asked whether Germany believes that the Islamic State group is responsible for the attack, he said it was “too early to engage in wild speculation”.

“We will be discussing how we can work even more closely together in tackling the flow of foreign fighters and funding to Daesh; and how we can best support people displaced by the fighting in Syria – including through the London Syria Conference in February”. It hasn’t taken a direct combat role, however. Authorities didn’t identify the victims but said they ranged in age from 51 to 73.

A previous version of this story has been corrected to show that the German interior minister’s surname is Maiziere, not Maziere.