(VOVworld) - Turkey's interior minister said on Monday that a car bombing that killed two police officers and wounded 22 people in the southern city of Gaziantep, near Syria, was carried out by militants linked to the Islamic State.

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Minister Efkan Ala told reporters on Monday that up to 50 people were detained for questioning in Gaziantep over Sunday's attack. The minister also confirmed the identity of the suicide bomber in the city of Bursa last week as 23-year-old Eser Cali. He described Cali as a member of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK). The bomb attack took place when Ankara is being threatened by the IS and PKK gunmen.