urkey reported that a number of victims were killed as a result of the explosion shook the area of the Obelisk from Egypt in the field of the historical Sultanahmet desk in the center of Istanbul city, at a time when many rushed from members of the police and the medical crews to the site of the blast.
The governor's office in Istanbul that the explosion killed 10 and injured 15, while the Turkish TV channels that the explosion resulted from a suicide attack, killing eight people were killed and a number of the injured, but they did not provide a final toll on the number of victims.
Aljazeera correspondent said Amer Lavi that the police closed the region completely, and that it is conducting a survey to it for fear of the possibility of the presence of other bombs, indicating that the foreign tourists were among the injured.
Eyewitnesses said that they heard the sound of the explosion, and that the Turkish police closed the region, and it was not immediately clear what caused the explosion, while the Anatolia news agency reported that the police elements formed a security cordon around the region, at the time of the transfer of the wounded were taken to the hospitals to receive treatment.
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the bombing.
Meanwhile, local media reported that the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmad Daoud Oglu will hold a security meeting in the Ministry of Interior headquarters in the capital of Ankara.
On his part, writer and political researcher Mohamed Zahid Gul that the explosion "carries a clear message from abroad to Turkey that we can do we unsettle security and stability and the economy and to influence the interests of the State, especially that the explosion targeted a sensitive region in the center of Istanbul is of huge symbolic historically, economically and politically,".
SOURCE/ ALJAZEERA ARABIC