Turkish officials identify Istanbul suicide bomber

Turkish authorities released a photo of the bomber and identified him as Vedat Acar, a member of the PKK.

Turkish authorities have identified the man who they say detonated explosives in busy square in downtown Istanbul on Sunday morning, killing himself and wounding at least 32 people. "His name Vedat Acar, born in 1986 from the Gurpinar district of Van," said Nazir Senturk, a spokesman for the governor of Istanbul.
Van, one of Turkey's easternmost border provinces, is populated predominantly by ethnic Kurds.
"He joined the PKK in 2004," Senturk added.
The PKK, or Kurdistan Workers Party, has been fighting a guerrilla war against the Turkish state since the early 1980s. More than 30,000 people, most of them ethnic Kurds, have been killed in the conflict.
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