İstanbul governor Muammer Güler disclosed that the name of the terrorist, who caused the explosion in a bus that killed 4 people in İstanbul Thursday, was Semiran Polat, born in 1975 in Eastern province Tunceli.

Güler told reporters that the woman terrorist had been involved in the bombings of Justice and Development Party (AKP) İstanbul Headquarters on 21st August 2003 and of a military vehicle in Halkalı İstanbul on 6th August 2003 and that she was sought by the police because of these actions.