The scene of the bombing
The 6 January 2015 Istanbul bombing was a terrorist attack carried out by the Islamic State against a police station in the city of Istanbul in Turkey, although the DHKP/C Marxist-Leninist rebel group claimed responsibility for the attack. 1 person was killed and 1 was wounded.
History[]
Chechen Islamic State of Iraq and Syria member Diana Ramazova was sent to carry out a suicide bombing against a police station at the central Sultan Ahmet district of Istanbul, near the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque in a popular tourist area. Ramazova, wearing a niqab, spoke to the police English with a thick Russian accent and told them that she dropped her wallet. She managed to detonate one of her explosive devices, killing her, one person, and wounding another, but the other two devices were defused by Turkish police before they could blow up.