ISTANBUL: An outlawed Turkish Marxist group on Wednesday said one of its members carried out the deadly suicide bombing at the heart of Istanbul's tourist district that killed the female bomber and a policeman.

The Marxist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) said in a statement on its website “our sacrificial fighter... carried out the sacrificial action on the tourist police department in Sultanahmet."

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The suicide bombing early evening Tuesday killed one policeman and lightly injured another in Sultanahmet, the heart of Istanbul's tourist district which is home to the Aga Sophia museum and the Blue Mosque.

The DHKP-C — a radical Marxist organisation considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union and the United States — had also last week claimed a January 1 attempted grenade attack on police guarding the the Dolmabahce palace in Istanbul that caused no serious casualties.

It said that Tuesday's bombing was aimed at “bringing to account” the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) co-founded by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over corruption following a ruling the day earlier that four former ministers accused of graft will not stand trial.