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12 gennaio 2016 | 18.29
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Western countries face a tough battle against terrorism, Italy's premier Matteo Renzi said on Tuesday after an alleged Islamic State suicide bomber killed nine German tourists in Istanbul.

"There's certainly a very hard battle to fight against terrorism and we need to question values and identity in our own countries," Renzi told daily La Repubblica.

"The attack in Turkey is a deep wound but many of the attackers hide and grow in the heart of Europe."

Renzi said that Italy had a "superior" techniques to identify terrorist suspects.

"We are taking fingerprints but also doing facial recognition and have an important presence across the country," he stated.

Italy's foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni had a phone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu after the blast, which the Turkish government claims was carried out by a Syrian IS jihadist.

"Italy and Turkey are more committed against terrorism than ever before," Gentiloni said in a statement.

Ten people died and 15 were injured in the bombing, many of them also German, in the attack on in the Sultanahmet district, near Istanbul's famous Blue Mosque.

The alleged bomber was born in 1988 and was identified from body parts, the Turkish government said. He was believed to have recently crossed into Turkey from Syria, deputy premier Numan Kurtulmus stated.

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