2016 Beşiktaş bombings
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On the evening of 10 December 2016, two explosions caused by a car bombing and suicide bombing in Istanbul's Beşiktaş municipality killed 48 people and injured 166 others. 39 of those killed were poli
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Memorial point after December 2016 Istanbul bombings
2015 Suruç bombing in Turkey
Kurdistan Freedom Hawks
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The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks, or TAK, is a Kurdish nationalist militant group in Turkey seeking an independent Kurdish state in Turkish Kurdistan. The group also opposes the Turkish government's polici
2016 Beşiktaş bombings
…Beşiktaş municipality killed 48 people and injured 166 others. 39 of those killed were police officers, 7 were civilians and 2 were perpetrators. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) assumed responsibility, claiming that their members killed more than 100 police officers. Earlier in 2016, Turkey had been hit by a number of…
Flag of the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK)