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Six individuals lost their lives as a result of the explosion of a bomb left beneath a bench on İstanbul's bustling İstiklal Avenue by Ahlam Albashir, a Syrian national. Subsequent investigations uncovered a network spanning across both Syria and Turkey.

Adem Taşkaya had claimed on social media that it was Jiyan Tosun who carried out the November bomb attack in İstanbul. Tosun and her family received death threats after his tweet.

The brother of Bilal Hassan, who is believed to have escaped to Bulgaria after the attack, has been detained.

As the investigation unfolds, more is revealed about the Syria-based network that carried out the November 13 attack on İstiklal Avenue, which killed six people and injured 81 others.

Two more suspects have been arrested in Türkiye and four others have been arrested in Bulgaria as the investigation continues.

The attack was intended to prevent Türkiye from achieving "full independence," Minister Soylu asserted.

Ahlam Albashir said she didn't know there was a bomb in the bag that she left under a bench on İstiklal Avenue, contrary to her statement to the police, where she had said it was her accomplice who carried the bag during their travel from Syria to Türkiye in July.

In her statement to the police, Ahlam Albashir explained how they came to Türkiye and how she carried out the attack.