The balance of the double attack occurred, Sunday evening, a commercial avenue in Istanbul it amounted to 17 dead. Of the 154 injured, 115 remain hospitalized.

The Turkish authorities admit that the number of victims could increase because of the high number of people who continue to receive hospital care, seven of which have serious injuries.

The double attack, considered “terrorist” by the Turkish authorities, occurred in a commercial avenue of the margin of European Istanbul.

Several Turkish newspapers attributed to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to authors of the attack, but authorities said that was still too early to pronounce.

Immediately after the incident, the firefighters who went to the site had attributed the explosion to a gas leak.

The turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has decided to cancel the council of ministers and go to Istanbul, said the Turkish television.

The secretary general of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has already condemned these “terrorist attacks on a brutal and deliberate targeted innocent civilians”.