January 2016 Istanbul bombing

Istanbul remains among the safest cities in the world, despite escalating regional risks and a series of terrorist attacks in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul Governor Vasip Şahin claimed on Sept. 6.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Istanbul Finance Summit (ISF16), Şahin said Istanbul was as at risk of terrorism as any other major global city. 

Click through to see photos from the aftermath of suicide attack in Istanbul which killed five and injured at least 20

Turkish security forces have arrested two suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants and seized plastic explosives and a suicide vest, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported March 7. 

The two were apprehended at a border crossing, when authorities noticed that they were trying to place a bag inside the back of a truck that had entered Turkey from Syria.

 The number of suspects detained in connection with last week's deadly blast in Istanbul has increased to 12 after Turkish authorities arrested two more people, state-run Anadolu Agency (AA) reported on Wednesday.

Turkey has detained eight Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants along with a child in a southern Turkish city bordering Syria, one week after a deadly suicide bombing at a tourist spot in Istanbul which was carried out by a Syrian-origin ISIL militant.

The number of suspects detained over the suicide attack in Istanbul on Tuesday has increased to seven.

This was announced by Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala on Thursday, Hurriyet Daily News quotes him as saying.

On Wednesday, Ala stated that one suspect had been detained, while later Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu added that four more people had been arrested.

The ISIL suicide bomber who killed 10 tourists by blowing himself up in Istanbul’s touristic Sultanahmet Square has been identified as a Syrian citizen born in Saudi Arabia who recently appealed to a district directorate of migration management for asylum in Turkey

The victims of an ISIL suicide attack have been commemorated in Istanbul’s historical Sultanahmet Square, the site of a Jan 12 explosion that killed 10 tourists and wounded 15 others

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.