understand why turkey is such a target? it s a very good question. let me sort of describe that first blast. we were roughly about, you know, half a mile away from the blast when it happened. it was so powerful you could hear the ground and feel the ground shake beneath your feet. the walls shook, the windows shook. immediately we knew from the first blast it was a major explosion. the second blast the suicide bomb happened about 20 seconds later and to that second question about why are people attacking turkey, well, it s in a volley tile area. there are kurdish separatists and isis next door and a failed coup that happened about six months ago a little less than that. a lot of enemies in this area that see turkey as a big target. glad you and everybody there are certainly okay. thank you very much. we appreciate it. we ll be checking in with him throughout the morning. also following breaking news in egypt this morning. a bomb blast killed at least 25 people and left dozens of
actually threw the bomb into a chapel at the end of a service at st. mark s cathedral coming as turkey observes a day of mourning after a bomb yesterday claimed nearly 40 lives. we have the latest. connor, do we know who is behind the bombings in istanbul? yeah. turkish authorities are pointing the finger at kurdish separatists. in the last 18 months turkey has been rocked by a wave of violence by both kurdish separatist and isis fighters from syria. the country has seen also an attempted coo against the president. instability there has been on the rise. but the attack, a pair of bombings outside this upscale soccer stadium in downtown istanbul saturday night came as people were watching soccer and were out as a festive night there. at least 38 people killed and
it began as a normal saturday night. istanbul has a new normal. twin bombings less than a minute apart left more than three dozen dead. and over 150 wounded. the first attack a car bomb that struck riot police as they left a stadium following a soccer game. moments later, a suicide bombing at a nearby park. most casualties were policemen. no one claimed responsibility. but the government quickly bl e blamed kurdish separatists. police say they arrested more than ten people. but turkey s enemies are many and recent attacks set a grim background for turkturkey s new normal. this morning, the interior minister delivered an angry speech in a funeral for some of those police officers. he railed against kurdish separatists calling them animals
behind the deadly attack. reporter: across turkey, funerals and protests as the investigation continues into saturday s bomb blast at a peace rally in the capital of ankara believed tov have been carried out by two male suicide bombers, long at odds with the government. they have hinted at isis and kurdish separatists as possible suspects. translator: some dna testing is being done. a determination on the suicide bomber s profile on how they reached the square and carried the bomb. they think it might be the work of the turkish government which is looking to reclaim its position. they came out after meeting with the prime minister on sunday and linked the carnage to turkey s
that have the capability to have struck here. one, the obviously, perhaps, isis, that group just across the border in syria. and turkey really officially entered the conflict with them only recently joining the coalition against isis and said it long-feared tisis here. the other organization is the pkk which i think you may have mentioned this. the air strikes are still continuing against. you have to think that s unlikely. kurdish separatists attacking curds. i want to mention we re about four minutes past ten, almost exact moment the first of the bombs detonated behind me on saturday, and there are people across ankara, some of them just gathering now at the station, wearing black and images of black ribbons who have come here to remember this moment. where you re seeing a crowd