A large number of police officers went to the scene along with bomb disposal units after the blast, which took place near an electrical transformer on Millet Street in Ä°stanbul's Fatih district, Today's Zaman reported.Preliminary examinations revealed that the explosion stemmed from a hand-made cluster bomb. No one was injured in the incident, according to news agencies.
Meanwhile, in Maltepe, a suspicious package was discovered in front of an Ataturk statue in the courtyard of a municipal police station. The package -- which bore a note reading "Cizre will be avenged" -- turned out to be a cluster bomb and was detonated by bomb disposal experts.
The pieces of the bomb were taken to a police station for examination. The note likely referred to the killing of a 12-year-old by police during demonstrations in Cizre, a town in southeast Turkey.
In Sultangazi, another Ä°stanbul neighborhood, a group of people wearing masks left a suspicious package at a bus stop on Adem Yavuz Street. Upon calls from passersby, police in armored vehicles arrived at the scene and blocked two lanes of traffic.
A bomb disposal team arrived and detonated the bomb. The initials of the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H), the youth branch of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), were written on the package.