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A TNT explosion killed six people and injured 81 others in Istanbul’s famous Taksim thoroughfare on Sunday. Police published the CCTV footage of a woman who was believed to be the main suspect of the incident.
Immediately after the earth-shattering kaboom, Adem Taskaya, deputy leader of the far-right Victory Party, claimed in a tweet that the woman in the footage was Jiyan Tosun, a Kurdish lawyer.
"The person who carried out the heinous attack in Taksim is Jiyan Tosun who is a PKK lawyer," he claimed. But after
PKK is an gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. Ankara considers it a terrorist organization.
Tosun told news hounds on Monday that she had been receiving threats by people and had been targeted on social media due to Taskaya’s tweet. She later filed a lawsuit against the politician.