istanbul from behind ankara to coordinate work to find out the causes of the explosion, and right now maxim durnev turkey , is in direct contact with us maxim greetings a. what information do you have. i understand that it is difficult to get enough of it, because again, according to the information on the tapes news agencies. we see that e people have difficulty accessing. social network. yes, good afternoon. really. now it 's hard to get any information. uh, because uh, as always, such incidents happen. now there is a ban on the publication, or other information, especially in social media, that is, it is now blocked from publishing technical major e social media platforms in the country. and especially on this topic, uh, i am now uh, right at the corner of the tatarsaray university on istiklal street exactly uh, here uh, not far. uh, happened today. uh, an explosion is being observed now, uh, enhanced security measures are being pulled into place, and the police in the sky over the central districts of istanbul are uh patrolling, uh, police helicopters. uh, in addition, uh to the place of contr

today's explosion and ask the head of the representative office of the news agency sputnik istanbul maxim durnevin direct contact maxim hello what is the latest goodnight. hello uh in the central district of istanbul e in the fatih district e, moved e. automobile. eh? suddenly, the driver noticed hmm smoke coming out of the car and parked on roadside. um, why did you ask for help? uh, respectively passers-by. uh, but uh, the flames spread to uh, neighboring cars, thus, uh, four more caught fire. e car. uh, because of the fire, one of them. e, respectively, e, exploded and the damage was caused to a neighboring building, located e, nearby. e.s.e, again, the roadway is one of the atms. uh, firefighters came to the call urgently. e, calculated at the moment, the fire is already out, and it is extinguished. as far as i've seen. uh, all the cars are already in disrepair condition. they were taken away from there. evacuators until u have any information about the injured or injured u no u but the fire is completely u, extinguished, uh, and. cooling work is currently underway at the site to somehow pre

from a local resident, we will have a comment from my colleague the head sputnik agency in turkey maxim durnev directly communication. maxim greetings last time. you told us that you are directly on glass street , but on that part of it that was not blocked by law enforcement officers, what is happening around you now? what changes do you see? i am with local people now. uh, it is reported that the street was blocked directly from this university to the square itself. uh, taxi, it's approximately. you can say half of the entire street is now cordoned off. uh, by the police, all local citizens who are here are immediately redirected to uh, adjacent streets for security reasons, they directly talk about it directly. uh. in addition, there were comments from erdogan president turkey that there were already six dead and 53 injured in the incident. uh, he said that there are terrorist signs of this explosion is still under investigation. uh, as far as i've seen from the media, uh, now there's a suspect one of the suspects is a woman. uh directly and by the topic of this matemia of this explosion wa

now our colleague, the head of the sputnik agency in turkey, maxim durnev, will tell. now a thorough investigation is underway. eight prosecutors from the city of istanbul are involved in the investigation plus. they have two chief prosecutors. connected street expired. tourist center central street blocked, somewhere half public transport. near taxi to the center of the city, we now mean it operates without any failures, the only one, limited, respectively, the exit for security reasons on e, and glass and the central taxi square, local residents and tourists recommend this area to avoid those who, again, one way or another appear here they are redirected to adjacent streets and, for security reasons, a number of retail outlets, which during normal busy hours are permanently open. now they were forced to close by order of the police. or by own desire. so, according to the latest data , six people died as a result of the explosion in istanbul, and 81 people were injured, the turkish vice president promised to investigate the chronology of events as soon as possible. re