2008 Istanbul bombings occurred on July 27 , 2008 when two explosions hit a busy shopping street in the Güngören district of Istanbul , killing seventeen people , five of them children , and injuring 154 . The attacks occurred at 9:45 p.m. local time , 18:45 UTC , on a pedestrian street closed to traffic . The bombings were the deadliest civilian attacks in Turkey since the 2003 Istanbul bombings , five years earlier
2003 Istanbul bombings
2003 Istanbul bombings
2008 Istanbul bombings