Istanbul November 20. 2003 Turkey
Bomb attacks on the British consulate and the HSBC bank headquarters in Istanbul have left at least 27 dead and up to 400 injured. The top UK diplomat in the city, Consul-General Roger Short, was among at least 14 people killed in the attack on the consulate. Istanbul was thrown into chaos by the twin blasts. Traffic blocked ambulances as they tried to reach the wounded and much of the city's phone network was cut off. The bomb at the consulate was so big, buildings hundreds of metres away had their windows blown out. Al-Qaeda and the Turkish Islamic militant group IBDA-C had jointly carried out the attacks.
