Tourists walk backdropped by the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, better known as the Blue Mosque, in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul, following an explosion nearby, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
A suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded 15 others on Tuesday morning, when he detonated a device in a popular tourist area of the Turkish capital, Istanbul.
All ten of the people killed by the explosion, that occurred just steps from the historic Blue Mosque, were foreign nationals – many of them German.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu revealed that the Syrian-born bomber was a member of IS, and he pledged to battle the militant group until it no longer “remains a threat” to Turkey or the world.
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But in the wake of the attack, many are left wondering, is Istanbul safe?
Istanbul is the sixth most visited city in the world, straddling both Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait, and one of the richest…