A police officer secures the area following a suicide bombing in a major shopping and tourist district in central Istanbul March 19, 2016. REUTERS/Osman Orsal
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday Turkey would use all its military and intelligence might to battle "one of the biggest and bloodiest terrorist waves in its history", after a suicide bomber killed three Israelis and an Iranian in Istanbul.
Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon described Turkey as "awash in terrorism". Turkey's main opposition party blamed what it called the government's "adventure-seeking policies" in the Middle East for turmoil washing across Syria's borders.
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