How Deadly Was Turkey In 2016 – A Flashback (Part I)
How Deadly Was Turkey In 2016 – A Flashback (Part II)
The year 2016 was highly deadly for Turkey including a failed coup in July that killed more than two hundred people. Let’s have a look in detail throughout the year.
May 1 – Gaziantep
Two officers were killed and 22 others were injured after a car bomb exploded at the entrance of a police station.
April 27 – Bursa
About one dozen people were injured when a female suicide bomber exploded in a historic district of Turkey’s fourth largest city.
April 12 – Gaziantep
Islamic State gunned down a Syrian journalist to death.
March 31 – Diyarbakir
Seven police officers were killed and 27 others were injured in a car bomb attack.
March 19 – Istanbul
Five people were killed in a shopping street of Istiklal after a Turkish suicide bomber linked to ISIS detonated.
March 13 – Ankara
About three dozen people were killed when a Kurdish woman linked to TAK (Kurdish Freedom Falcons) blew herself in a car.
Feb. 17 – Ankara
About 29 people were killed by a suicide car bomber linked to TAK.
Jan 12. – Istanbul
One dozen tourists from German were killed in a suicide attack linked to ISIS.
