European soccer closes ranks with Turkey after deadly Istanbul attacks (Reuters)

Soccer clubs across Europe showed solidarity with Turkey following a twin bombing outside the stadium of Istanbul team Besiktas on Saturday which killed at least 44 people. The first, a car bomb outside the stadium, was followed by a suicide bomb attack in an adjacent park less than a minute later. An offshoot of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the attack which killed at least 36 police officers and wounded 155 people.