ANKARA

The suicide bomber in the Istanbul attack that killed a Turkish police officer and wounded another late Tuesday remains unidentified, it emerged Wednesday.

Some media outlets had claimed that the suicide attacker was identified as Elif Sultan Kalsen, a member of the far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front or the DHKP-C; however, the family of Kalsen denied that the remains of the suicide attacker belonged to their daughter.

Mehmet and Sirin Kalsen, parents of the alleged bomber, said a dead body was shown to them at Turkey's Forensic Medicine Institute, but it did not belong to their daughter.

"We were shown a female body with white skin and around 163 centimeters tall. Elif Sultan Kalsen's parents came and looked at the body. The body that was shown does not belong to Elif Sultan Kalsen," the family’s lawyer, Ebru Timtik, said.

Timtik also said the family had no information about the whereabouts of their daughter.

"She has not been in contact with her family. That's why they couldn't be sure. They also couldn't be sure of the news on the media. That's why we came here and wanted to be sure. The DNA samples were already taken before," the lawyer said.

Bomb squads had also defused two unexploded bombs on the body of the suicide bomber, who attacked a tourism police station in Istanbul in the evening,

Policeman Kenan Kumas was killed and another policeman was wounded in the attack in Sultanahmet district, a tourist destination that houses the Sultanahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque) and the Ayasofya (Hagia Sophia) museum.

Istanbul's Governor Vasip Sahin had said earlier that the English-speaking bomber entered into the police station and reported a missing wallet before blowing herself up.

Last week on Thursday, a man was arrested after throwing a grenade and shooting at a police booth in front of Dolmabahce Palace, near the prime minister’s office in Besiktas district of Istanbul. That attacker was reportedly a member of the far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front.

The DHKP-C is a Marxist-Leninist party in Turkey. It was founded in 1978 as the Revolutionary Left and was renamed in 1994 after factional infighting and a number of assassinations and suicide bombings, including an attack that targeted the U.S. Embassy in Ankara in 2013.

 EU 'stands with' Turkish govt, people over Istanbul attack

The EU said on Wednesday that it stands with the Turkish government and people. ''The EU expresses its condolences to the family of the deceased and wishes a speedy recovery to those injured,'' Federica Mogherini, spokesperson of the EU foreign policy chief said. ''The EU will continue its regular counter-terrorism dialogue meetings with Turkey as part of our joint efforts to fight terrorism in all its forms.''

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