Turkish interior minister Suleyman Soylu on Monday said that pieces of evidence show that PKK/YPG terrorist group is responsible for the attack on Istanbul’s Istiklal Street, Anadolu Agency reported. He said that the person who planted the bomb on Istiklal Street that killed eight people and injured 81 others has been arrested. Terming it a "terror attack," Suleyman Soylu said that their assessment is that the attack came from Ayn al-Arab in Syria, where the Syrian headquarters of PKK/YPG is located. He asserted that Turkey will continue with its "resolute and rightful war" against terror. He committed that Turkey will "retaliate" against those who are behind the attack. Turkey has designated the PKK or Kurdistan Workers Party as a terrorist organization and the YPG is its Syrian offshoot.
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