CHARLOTTE, N.C. — More than 200 people are in custody after the twin bomb attacks near a football stadium in Istanbul.
The attacks killed 44 people.
Channel 9 reporter Alexa Ashwell talked to Turkish natives in Charlotte stunned by more violence in their home country.
The story hit home for Bora Kazmirci. Channel 9 spoke Monday to Kazmirci in south Charlotte, where he now calls home.
“My sister heard it. She was out to dinner with her family,” he said.
Kazmirci's sister, brother and nephews were all within several miles of Besiktas Stadium when two explosions rocked Istanbul's central area Saturday.
Nobody in his family was hurt.
“It happened again was my immediate thought,” Kazmirci said.
It was just six months ago that Ashwell interviewed Kazamirci and his brother, Kaya, after the terrorist bombing at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport.
Kaya had just flown out of the airport to get to Charlotte.
He told Ashwell over the phone Monday from Istanbul that he was home when the bombings happened.
"I heard two bangs and I heard big bang and a smaller bang about 20 seconds later,” Kaya Kazmirci said.
Officials said a Kurdish militant group has claimed responsibility for this attack; ISIS leadership was involved in the airport bombing.
“Ironically, these Kurds and the same Kurds fighting ISIS for America in Iraq and Syria so Turkey is in a very odd position,” Bora Kazmirci said.
The attacks haven't swayed Kazmirci's decision to travel to Istanbul.
In fact, he was just there two months ago visiting family and said his biggest fear in all of this is one day being unable to travel home.
He worries "that something happens to my family. That I won't be able to go home."