Istanbul

Germany's consulate-general to Turkey's Aegean province of ?zmir has started collecting bids to sell its former historic building, where it resided 82 years.

The mission had evacuated the building in ?zmir's central Kordon neighborhood and moved to the new facility in Balçova in 2007. 

The stone building had served as the consulate-general building since July 14, 1925. 

United States spy chief James Clapper's personal online accounts have been hacked, his office confirmed on Jan. 12, a few months after CIA director John Brennan suffered a similar attack.

Clapper's Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmed the hack but refused to provide details.

One person has been detained over the Jan. 12 Sultanahmet attack that killed 11 people, Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala has announced.

Ala said a total of 3,318 people have been detained until now within the context of the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other radical organizations.

German tourism giant TUI said that customers who had booked trips to Istanbul can switch destination without penalties, after a suicide attack in the Turkish city on early Jan. 12 claimed 10 lives, nine of them Germans, as reported by Agence France-Presse. 

The operator said customers can also opt to postpone their trip to Istanbul without penalties for the next six days.

Turkey's top business bodies have condemned the suicide bomb attack in Istanbul's touristic Sultanahmet neighborhood, calling for the country to stand together against such acts.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere arrived in Istanbul on Jan. 13 following a suicide bomb attack there that killed 10 tourists, most of them Germans, his ministry said.

The Turkish lira lagged an emerging market recovery on Jan. 12, staying under pressure after a deadly bomb blast in central Istanbul rattled investors but failed to cause sharp losses.

The lira briefly dipped to 3.0488 per dollar, its lowest since September after news broke of the suicide bombing in Turkey's biggest city, which killed at least 10 people.

Yesterday's attack perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has important differences from the jihadist organization's two previous suicide bombings on Turkish territory, the Oct. 10 twin suicide attack in Ankara and the July 22 bombing in Suruç in ?anl?urfa province. 

An Istanbul court imposed a ban on reporting the investigation into the Jan. 12 attack in Turkey's largest city, including "all kinds of news, interviews, criticism and similar publications in print, visual, social media and all kinds of media on the Internet."

Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said that the suicide bomber who killed at least 10 people in Istanbul on Tuesday was a foreign member of the Islamic State group, according to hurriyetdailynews.com.

Turkey's Dogan news agency reported that the suspect had been identified as Saudi-born Nabil Fadl?.