Sunday, December 11, 2016
Turkey hunts for answers, mourns dead after blasts kill 38 (The Associated Press)
Turkey declared a national day of mourning, launched a full investigation and paid tribute to its dead Sunday after two bombings in Istanbul killed 38 people and wounded 155 others near a soccer stadium. The twin car-and-suicide bombings Saturday night near the Besiktas stadium enraged top officials, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who vowed to hunt down the perpetrators. The attack targeted police officers, killing 30 of them along with seven civilians and an unidentified person, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told reporters Sunday.
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