Category: Terrorism, from Wikidata’s class “terrorist attack”
2016 Beşiktaş bombings
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On the evening of 10 December 2016, two explosions caused by a car bombing and suicide bombing in Istanbul's Beşiktaş municipality killed 48 people and injured 166 others. 39 of those killed were police officers, 7 were civilians and 2 were perpetrators. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) assumed responsibility, claiming that their members killed more than 100 police officers.
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2016 Beşiktaş bombings. (2026, September 4). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2016_Be%C5%9Fikta%C5%9F_bombings&oldid=1373130718
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“2016 Beşiktaş bombings.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 4 Sept. 2026, en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2016_Be%C5%9Fikta%C5%9F_bombings&oldid=1373130718.
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