” “The president of the Congress of local and regional powers of the Council of Europe (COE), the Turkish Yavuz Mildon, has condemned the attacks in Istanbul "in absolute terms". Mildon is also linked to the Bosporus city for personal reasons. "These barbarian attacks can only be qualified as absurd crimes" "whatever the reasons in the name of which they were committed". According to Mildon, elected at the top of the Congress of Strasbourg last May, yesterday’s bombs "remind us with brutality of the constant need to support local communities in any possibly way in the struggle against terrorism, since their populations are the first ones to suffer from the consequences" of terrorism. Yavuz Mildon gave his condolences to the families of the victims and "sympathized with the population and the authorities of the City of Istanbul".” “
