Turkey

Israeli parliamentary Speaker Reuven Rivlin said on Tuesday that suspected bombers involved in the Istanbul synagogue attacks were Turkish nationals with links to Afghanistan and Iran. Twenty-five people died when suicide bombers detonated explosives-laden trucks at two synagogues in old Istanbul on Saturday.

Turkish officials are investigating claims that the al-Qaeda terrorist network was behind the weekend’s bomb blasts outside two Istanbul synagogues that killed 23 people. At least six Jews at Beth Israel were among those killed in the blasts, which also wounded 303 people, including Jews and Muslim passers-by.

Police in Turkey have arrested three people, including a veiled woman, in connection with twin car bomb attacks that devastated two Istanbul synagogues on Saturday, killing 20 people and wounding 300. Officials had earlier speculated that the attacks had been carried out by al-Qaeda.