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Bodies of Istanbul attack victims flown to Germany

Bodies of 10 victims of Sultanahmet suicide bombing sent from Istanbul's Atatürk Airport to Germany on military airplane

Ersin Çelik
19:11 - 16/01/2016 Cumartesi
Update: 17:15 - 16/01/2016 Cumartesi
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The bodies of 10 Germans killed in the attack targeted Istanbul's Sultanahmet Square were flown back to their country.



The remain of the people killed were sent from Istanbul's Atatürk Airport to Germany on a German military airplane.



Before the bodies were sent, Germany's Federal Crime Office (BKA) officials came to Turkey on Friday for examination, followed by a meeting of Turkish and German officials.



Ten people were killed and 15 wounded in the suicide bomb attack at Istanbul's Sultanahmet Square on January 12.



The bomber was identified as Nabil Fadli, who had been fighting with Daesh terrorist group after fighting with Free Syrian Army for two years.



Video footage of Fadli was also emerged while he was in the bureau for migration and asylum in Istanbul's Zeytinburnu district aiming at applying for asylum seeker status in Turkey.



Daesh targeting civilians


In recent months, Turkey has been shaken by several terror attacks which claimed over 100 lives.



In July last year, at least 32 people were killed in an explosion in the border city of Suruç, in Şanlıurfa province when a suicide bomb targeted a group of youths during a rally.



Months after the Suruç attack, Turkey's capital city, Ankara, was rocked by two simultaneous suicide attacks.



The Ankara attack was the deadliest in the history of the Turkish Republic as 102 people were killed in the incident. Two suicide bombers detonated themselves in a rally near the capital's main train station



According to security authorities, the Suruç attack was also carried out by the Daesh terrorist organization, while the Ankara attacks were conducted by a cooperation between Daesh and the PKK terrorist group.


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