Photo Feature: Bomb attacks in Turkey since 1982

Photo Feature: Bomb attacks in Turkey since 1982

ISTANBUL – Agence France-Presse
Photo Feature: Bomb attacks in Turkey since 1982 The following is a list of the worst bomb attacks in Turkey since 1982:  

August 7, 1982: A bomb at Ankara’s Esenboğa Airport followed by a gun battle leaves 11 dead and 63 injured. The attack is claimed by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA).

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September 6, 1986: A twin suicide bombing claimed by Islamic Jihad kills 22 people at the Neve Shalom synagogue in Istanbul.

Photo Feature: Bomb attacks in Turkey since 1982

December 25, 1991: Explosives and firebombs are hurled at Istanbul department store “Çetinkaya” by militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), killing 17 people and injuring 23 others. 

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March 13, 1999: 12 die in a firebomb attack at Istanbul shopping mall “Mavi Çarşı” (the blue bazaar). The attack is claimed by the PKK, but the militant group later retracts its claim.

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November 15 and 20, 2003: Four suicide car bomb attacks in Istanbul hit two synagogues, the British consulate and a branch of British multinational bank HSBC, leaving 63 dead, including British Consul General Roger Short, and hundreds wounded. The attacks are claimed by al-Qaeda and a Turkish extremist group named the Islamic Front of Raiders of the Great Orient.

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September 12, 2006: 10 people, including seven children, are killed in a powerful bomb blast in Diyarbakır, the largest city in Turkey’s southeast, while the PKK denies involvement.
   
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February 11, 2013: 17 people are killed when a Syrian minibus explodes barely 40 meters into the buffer zone of the Cilvegözü border crossing with Syria in the Turkish town of Reyhanlı.

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May 11, 2013: A twin car bomb attack kills 52 people in Reyhanlı as Ankara blames pro-Damascus groups.

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July 20, 2015: 34 people are killed and around 100 injured in a suicide bombing in the Suruç district of Turkey’s southeastern Şanlıurfa province near the border with Syria. Turkish officials blame the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

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October 10, 2015: 103 people are killed and more than 500 wounded in a twin suicide bombing targeting a crowd of activists at a peace rally in Ankara. The government blames the attack - the deadliest ever on Turkish soil - on ISIL.

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January 12, 2016: 10 people, all foreigners, are killed and 15 wounded in a suicide attack by a Saudi-born bomber in Istanbul’s Sultanahmet district, the touristic heart of the city.

Photo Feature: Bomb attacks in Turkey since 1982