Everywhere is a target now, says Straw

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw toured the wreckage of one of the Istanbul bomb attacks and warned of the hard fight ahead to defeat the terrorists responsible.

Mr Straw spent about 30 minutes in the wreckage of the HSBC bank headquarters building with the Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul.

Wearing a dark tie and suit, Mr Straw emerged from the shattered shell of the modern office building surrounded by dozens of Turkish security police.

He told reporters: "I'm afraid to say that with these ruthless fanatics who we now face, everywhere is a target.

"It's been Istanbul over the last week but over the years it has been from New York to Indonesia, to Saudi Arabia, to Morocco.

"This is something which, I'm afraid, is a terrorism that attacks the world and where the targets are across the world."

He went on: "What we know from our experience in the UK of terrorism, albeit a different kind of terrorism, is that we have to work very hard with our security forces but above all in your heart and your soul you have to decide you are going to fight this terrorism."

He said the UK and Turkey were "bound together" in the fight against terror.

The British consul general Roger Short was killed in the blast along with his personal assistant Lisa Hallworth, 38.

The third British victim was named in Istanbul as Annette Elizabeth Kurma, a Scottish secretary married to a Turkish husband.

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