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No Indonesians victim in Istanbul blast: Foreign Ministry
Tourists visit the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, better known as the Blue Mosque, near the site of Tuesday's explosion, in the historic Sultanahmet district in Istanbul, Jan
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Tourists visit the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, better known as the Blue Mosque, near the site of Tuesday's explosion, in the historic Sultanahmet district in Istanbul, Jan. 14. A suicide bomber detonated a bomb in the heart of Istanbul's historic district on Tuesday morning, killing a number of German tourists and wounding over a dozen others, in the latest in a string of attacks by the Islamic extremists targeting westerners. (AP/Emrah Gurel) (AP/Emrah Gurel)
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br>Tourists visit the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, better known as the Blue Mosque, near the site of Tuesday's explosion, in the historic Sultanahmet district in Istanbul, Jan. 14. A suicide bomber detonated a bomb in the heart of Istanbul's historic district on Tuesday morning, killing a number of German tourists and wounding over a dozen others, in the latest in a string of attacks by the Islamic extremists targeting westerners. (AP/Emrah Gurel)
The Foreign Ministry has made assurances that there were no Indonesians killed or injured in a blast in an Istanbul tourist area on Tuesday.
Kompas.com reported on Wednesday that through a press statement sent out to media on Wednesday, the ministry said it had received formal information from the Turkish government that no Indonesians were victims in the incident.
The Indonesian government condemned the bomb that killed civilians and urged all Indonesians in Turkey to stay cautious and avoid crowded places.
The government also urged people who want to travel to Turkey to consider the security situation.
According to the Foreign Ministry's data, there are 708 Indonesians living in Istanbul, 310 of them students.
The Turkish government had stated that the blast in historic Sultanahmet Square of Istanbul on Tuesday was set off by a suicide bomber.
The Indonesian Consulate General in Istanbul reported to Jakarta about the incident saying that the bomber was disguised as a tourist in the prominent tourism area before detonating the bomb.
Turkish government announced that the bomb killed 10 foreigners ' most of them German tourists ' and wounded 15 people, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the bomber was a member of the radical Islamic State (IS) group. This incident was the latest of a string of attacks carried out by Islamic extremists in Turkey. (afr/rin)
