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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.

Considering the duration of detention and the possibility of a change in the nature of the crime, the court decided to release the detained defendants Bakar Carkes, Hasan Aburas, and Muhap Ammari in the İstiklal Avenue bombing case.

A suspect of the İstiklal Avenue bombing killing 6 people in November in İstanbul, Halil Menci, was killed by the national intelligence agency MİT in north Syria, it was announced.