ISTANBUL: A Turkish court sentenced Ahlam Albashir, a Syrian national, to life in prison on Friday over a 2022 bombing that killed six people in Istanbul’s main shopping street, a copy of the verdict obtained by Reuters showed.
Six Turkish citizens, two members each of three families, were killed in the attack on Nov. 13, 2022. The explosion also wounded about 100 people in the busy street packed with shoppers and tourists. The court imposed a total of seven life sentences on Albashir, who was previously identified by police as the person who planted the bomb.
The case also involved more than 30 other defendants. Four of them were released from prison on Friday, while the court ordered 10 defendants to be tried separately as the individuals could not be found. Twenty other defendants were handed prison sentences ranging from 4 years to life. Of those 20, six people were given aggravated life imprisonment sentences for “disrupting the unity and integrity of the state” and “intentional murder.”
Turkey blamed Kurdish militants for the explosion, saying the order for the attack on Istiklal Avenue was given in Kobani in northern Syria, where Turkish forces have conducted operations against a Syrian Kurdish militia in recent years.
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