Bulgaria accuses five people of attack in Istanbul

Bulgarian authorities have charged five people with providing assistance to one of the suspects who carried out last weekend's attack in downtown Istanbul.

Six people were killed and 81 others injured in Taksim Square.

So said on November 19th, Siika Mileva, Sofia prosecution spokeswoman.

Turkey's Interior Minister, Sulejman Soylu, said on November 14th that the country's police have arrested 22 people suspected of the attack in Istanbul.

Among those arrested, there was the man who planted the bomb.

Turkey was hit by a series of deadly bombings even in 2015 and 2017, whose responsibility the militant Islamic State group and Kurdish militants had claimed. Over 500 civilians and security personnel have been killed in these attacks.

Turkey has long fought against Kurdish militants either the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.