PKK claims responsibility for Istanbul bombing

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists organization, claimed responsibility for the attacks of Saturday night that hit Turkey's tourist hub,Istanbul and left 38 people dead.

Earlier on Sunday, Ankara officials said the initial findings show that the PKK terrorists are behind the Istanbul attacks.

Two separate blasts took place in Istanbul on Saturday night, 45 seconds apart, with one of the bombs self-detonated by a suicide bomber in central Beşiktaş district's Maçka Park, and the other a car bomb that was detonated in a nearby street.

The PKK resumed its decades-old armed campaign in July last year. Since then, PKK terrorist attacks martyred more than 700 security personnel and claimed the lives of many civilians including women and children, while nearly 8,000 PKK terrorists were killed in military operations.