Turkey's interior minister on Sunday identified the suicide bomber who killed himself and four foreign tourists in Istanbul as a militant with links to the Islamic State group.<br />Minister Efkan Ala said the bomber was Turkish citizen Mehmet Ozturk, who was born in 1992 in Gaziantep province, which borders Syria.<br />He said Ozturk was not on any list of wanted suspects and five other people were detained as part of the investigation.<br />Saturday's explosion killed five people, including Ozturk, and wounded dozens of others.<br />Among the fatalities were two American-Israelis, another Israeli and an Iranian.<br />The attack targeted Istanbul's pedestrian Istiklal Street, which is lined with shops and cafes in an area that also has government offices and foreign missions.
