(TRUNEWS) At 17:15 local time Haberturk TV reported that an explosion caused by a pipe bomb hit Istanbul’s Bayrampasa Metro Station on the European side of the city, leaving 1 dead and 6 injured.
The pipe bomb was reportedly placed on an overpass near the train station, and the explosion has cut electricity off in Bayrampasa and the surrounding districts.
Atilla Aydiner, the Mayor of Bayrampasa, confirmed during a live television appearance on A Haber television after the explosion, that at least five people were wounded in the attack and noted that it occurred during the evening rush hour traffic.
It is unknown at this time who orchestrated the attack, but the city has been on high alert since two suicide bombers attacked Turkey’s capital city Ankara in October, killing more than 100 people.
Yesterday Rick Wiles reported on TRUNEWS that Russia has reached out for a potential alliance with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) affiliated group fighting ISIS in Syria. Rick commented that the Kurdish people hold a unified goal of creating a united Kurdish state in the middle east.
The PKK and other Kurdish affiliated groups are considered to be terrorist groups by the Turkish, EU, and U.S. governments, which was reaffirmed on October 20th by Turkey’s decision to detain a Tahir Elci, atop Kurdish lawyer, for challenging the conclusion that the PKK was a terrorist group. Reuters reported that Tahir Elci was shot dead on November 28th in the cross fire of a gun battle between police and unidentified gunman in south east Turkey.
Before Turkey shot down the Russian Su-24, and was exposed as one of the major refinement and export avenues for ISIS oil, the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan commented live on Kanal 24 television station that “We are determined to (combat) anything that threatens us along the Syrian border, inside or out.”
In that address he was referring to encroachment of Kurdish forces loyal to the Democratic Union Party (PYD) & the YPG, who crossed west of the Euphrates River in the town of Tel Abyad and whom the Turkish government have been waging a civil war against since 1984.
Following the military escalation’s in Syria by both Russia and Turkey, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered his government to draw up measures which would wage ‘economic war’ against President Erodgen country, to include freezing some joint investment projects, restricting food imports, and leveraging an energy asset embargo against Turkey.
NRT reported that up to 70 percent of Turkey’s gas is supplied by Russia’s Gazprom.
Due to this threat to Turkey’s energy security, their countries war against the Kurdish people in the middle east has taken a distinct shift, as President Erodgen met with the head of the Kurdistan Parliament’s Committee of Industry and Natural Resources Sherko Jawdat on November 30th, to announce that Erbil and Ankara have reached a gas export agreement for 2017.
Jawdat told a reporter from Anadolu Agency that “Kurdish gas will reach Europe via Turkey.” and that “the Kurdish region can fill the gap created by Russia’s gas cut-off to Europe.”
It is unclear if the PKK, YPG, or the PYD are responsible for todays attack in Istanbul, or the attack in October, but have been implicated as possible suspects by the Turkish government in past attacks, to include the killing of a police officer and injury of two others on October 10th in the Sur district of Diyarbakir province.
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