The death toll in bomb blasts in Istanbul rose to 17 on Monday, Turkish broadcaster NTV said, and more than 150 people were wounded in an attack hours ahead of a court case over banning the governing party. NTV said the toll reached 17 after one person died from wounds sustained in the Sunday evening blasts in a working class neighbourhood in Istanbul. More than a dozen people were seriously injured in the two explosions. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan cancelled his weekly cabinet meeting to travel to Turkey's largest city to visit the site of the blasts, a government official told Reuters.
