Turkey’s tourism industry suffered a major blow on Sunday afternoon when a suicide bomber blew himself up on a pedestrian street in Istanbul. It is about the main tourist street of the unofficial capital of Turkey – Istiklal Street, where the Consulate General of Russia is also located. Immediately after the explosion, real panic began on the street itself and in the surrounding area – tourists walking along the promenade rushed to run…
By Sunday evening, it was reliably known about 6 dead and at least 53 were wounded. Neither their nationality nor the organizer of the terrorist attack is known yet: information is received extremely sparingly because the Turkish authorities banned TV channels from broadcasting from the site of the explosion. Not only the place of the terrorist attack but also the entire street is surrounded. The authorities do not allow the press to the scene of the tragedy.
In the evening, it became known that the General Prosecutor’s Office of Istanbul officially classified the explosion on Istiklal Street as a terrorist attack. It will affect not only Turkish tourism in general and the flow of Russian tourists to Turkey in particular. He will also hit Erdogan, who has recently paid special attention to security issues: such an explosion in the center of Istanbul is a blow to his image, and next year in Turkey there will be presidential elections…