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Police in Turkey have detained 59 people suspected of being Islamic State militants, following suicide bomb attack in Istanbul.

Reports out of Turkey said the attack was carried out by a foreigner who was a member of the Islamic State terror group that has embedded itself in Syria and Iraq.

Running a headline that read “The suspect is Putin”, Star claimed that Russian Federation, in cooperation with Bashar al-Assad’s Syria and Iran, is in close cooperation with terrorist organizations.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his part said the terrorist was Syrian and blamed Kurdish groups. He said Turkey had detained as many as 220 IS suspects in the week prior to the attack.

Turkey has been on alert for attacks since an October double suicide bombing killed more than 100 people at a gathering of peace activists outside a train station in the capital, Ankara.

“It was hard to say who was alive or dead”, Koroglu said.

The attack in the heart of Istanbul’s historic district on Tuesday was the latest by Islamic extremists targeting Westerners.

Eight Germans were among the dead and nine others were wounded, some seriously, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told reporters in Berlin.

Rescuers help clear bodies after the suicide blast in central Istanbul. “Travelers in Istanbul are strongly urged to avoid for now large groups of people in public places as well as tourist attractions” and to stay informed via official travel advisories and the media, the foreign ministry said.

The blast would be the first by IS to target Turkey’s vital tourism sector, although the militants have struck with deadly effect elsewhere in the country. The authorities said that the alleged IS supporters in the two towns were planning to carry out further attacks.

The Chancellor moved the fence in connection with other attacks of the terrorist organization “Islamic State” (IS).

The Sabah daily said the bomber had entered Turkey as a refugee from Syria on January 5. Ten people were killed and fifteen others wounded after the explosion.

Violence has also escalated in the mainly Kurdish southeast since a two-year ceasefire collapsed in July between the state and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) armed group, which has been fighting for three decades for Kurdish autonomy.

Some placed red roses to remember the victims by the obelisk, which appeared to have sustained no damage in the bombing.