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Six people were killed and 81 others wounded on Sunday when an explosion rocked a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul in what Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called a bomb attack that “smells like terrorism”.

A forensic technician works after an explosion on busy pedestrian Istiklal street in Istanbul, Turkey, November 13, 2022.A forensic technician works after an explosion on busy pedestrian Istiklal street in Istanbul, Turkey, November 13, 2022.

Some four hours after the blast, Vice President Fuat Oktay and Interior Minster Suleyman Soylu visited the site of the explosion.“We will resolve this matter very soon,” Oktay told reporters. “It would be wrong to say this is undoubtedly a terrorist attack but the initial developments and initial intelligence from my governor is that it smells like terrorism,” he added.

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