ISTANBUL (Reuters) -A Turkish court sentenced Ahlam Albashir, a Syrian national, to life in prison on Friday over a 2022 bombing that killed six people in Istanbul's main shopping street, a copy of the verdict obtained by Reuters showed. Six Turkish citizens, two members each of three families, were killed in the attack on Nov. 13, 2022. The court imposed a total of seven life sentences on Albashir, who was previously identified by police as the person who planted the bomb.
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Huseyin Buyukdag says he loves Turkey and his job as a teacher. After Erdogan secured a third term in office in May elections, things are unlikely to change, he says. It’s enough to make ends meet in their border province but far short of what is needed in big cities like Istanbul or the capital, Ankara, and nowhere enough for a young couple to save or start a family.