Suicide Bombers kill 10 at Istanbul Airport

Syl wrote:Latest news is 28 people are dead.

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At least 36 dead, 147 injured in suspected ISIS attack at Istanbul airport
Published June 28, 2016
FoxNews.com
 BREAKING:  At least 36 people were killed and 147 more were injured when three suspected ISIS suicide bombers attacked Istanbul's main international airport Tuesday night, Turkish officials said.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim confirmed the death toll from the blasts at Istanbul Ataturk Airport. Earlier, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag confirmed that 147 people had been wounded in the attacks.
The Associated Press initially quoted a senior Turkish official as saying that close to 50 people had already died. However, the news agency later said that the official told them the figure was expected to rise to close to 50.

A Turkish official told Reuters that the "vast majority" of victims were Turkish, but some foreigners were also affected.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the same senior Turkish official told AP that initial indications suggested ISIS were behind the attack. According to Reuters, a police source also told the Dogan News Agency, "ISIS is behind the attack." 
That assessment was shared by Yildirim, who said the early investigative findings pointed to ISIS responsibility.
 
A U.S. government official told Fox News that the attack fits the profile of ISIS, which has stepped up its targeting of Turkey. The official said that ISIS tends to attack internationally known targets with an economic impact, such as an airport, while the Kurdish terror group PKK generally targets Turkish military and law enforcement.
The attack occurred one day before the two-year anniversary of ISIS declaring a caliphate across large swathes of Iraq and Syria, led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Yildrim told reporters that the initial investigation indicated that all three attackers opened fire before blowing themselves up. He added that the terrorists took a taxi to the airport before launching their attack.
Another Turkish official told AP two of the attackers detonated explosives at the entrance of the international arrivals terminal after police fired at them, while a third blew himself up in the parking lot. Security video appeared to show one of the attackers running through the terminal with a weapon. In the footage, the attacker falls down, possibly after being shot, then detonated his suicide vest.
When asked whether a fourth attacker might have escaped, Yildirim said authorities have made no such assessment but are considering every possibility. 
The U.S. official told Fox News that the apparent coordination among the suicide bombers also points to an ISIS operation, as does its resemblance to the March bombings in Brussels, which killed 32 people.

Turkish airports have security checks at the entrance of terminal buildings and then again before entry to departure gates.
Police sealed off the terminal and flights were prevented from taking off or landing. Some flights bound for the airport were diverted, while passengers on scheduled outbound flights were put up in nearby hotels. 
Early Wednesday, Yildirim announced that air traffic to Ataturk Airport had resumed, but it was not clear whether planes were being allowed to take off.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced late Tuesday that all flights between Istanbul and the U.S. had been halted until further notice. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced Tuesday that extra officers would be deployed to New York City's JFK and LaGuardia airports, as well as Newark Liberty International Airport.
A law enforcement source told Fox News that there were no immediate plans for additional security in so-called "sterile zones", or areas where passengers have already gone through checkpoints, at U.S. airports. The official said any decision to add security outside sterile zones would be made by state or local law enforcment.
Some passengers were kept in Ataturk Airport for over two hours after the explosions before the terminal was evacuated. Hundreds spilled out on to the sidewalk with suitcases in their hands or stacked on trollies. 
Two South African tourists, Paul and Susie Roos from Cape Town, were at the airport and due to fly home at the time of the explosions.
"We came up from the arrivals to the departures, up the escalator when we heard these shots going off," Paul Roos told the Associated Press. "There was this guy going roaming around, he was dressed in black and he had a handgun."
Veysel Allay, who was waiting for a friend in the arrivals terminal, told the Daily Telegraph, "A  man ran up and ripped open his jacket, showing a bomb vest. I ran before he did anything."
Jim Hyong Lee of South Korea told the Telegraph he and his family were checking in for a flight home when "we heard gunshots."
"I grabbed my family and ran," Lee said. "Someone waved us into the prayer room and hid us there until the police came."
Roads around the airport were sealed off for regular traffic after the attack and several ambulances could be seen driving back and forth.


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Eilzel wrote:Turkish tourism is being hit by repeated attacks this year alone though Dean. I was in Turkey last month, right before the previous attack,and I was shocked at how few tourists there were. Great for having a convenient holiday but sad for the country. Sometimes we were among only a handful of people in a restaurant, a couple of times the only people, and our hotels were very quiet. People are turning away and some of the owners told us it was usually much busier at that time.  

Eilzel wrote:Turkish tourism is being hit by repeated attacks this year alone though Dean. I was in Turkey last month, right before the previous attack,and I was shocked at how few tourists there were. Great for having a convenient holiday but sad for the country. Sometimes we were among only a handful of people in a restaurant, a couple of times the only people, and our hotels were very quiet. People are turning away and some of the owners told us it was usually much busier at that time.  

eddie wrote:A taxi driver dropped the men off at the airport?
I do hope he's being looked at by the police as he's either an assistant to them or dead.

Who picks up three men, dressed in black carrying guns/big bags/ other?

eddie wrote:A taxi driver dropped the men off at the airport?
I do hope he's being looked at by the police as he's either an assistant to them or dead.

Who picks up three men, dressed in black carrying guns/big bags/ other?

Eilzel wrote:Dean:

But there have been multiple attacks this year in Istanbul and Ankara, it is also geographically closer to danger zones. So I'd say it is more dangerous on balance.

Yes Thailand has attacks, but last year aside they are entirely concentrated in three tiny provinces in the south on the border with Malaysia. Bangkok is as safe as any other East Asian city (at least where terrorism is concerned).

Out of intetest why don't you like Istanbul? I found it one of the most beautiful and pleasant cities I've been to- the waiter's attitudes aside lol

Eilzel wrote:Dean:

But there have been multiple attacks this year in Istanbul and Ankara, it is also geographically closer to danger zones. So I'd say it is more dangerous on balance.

Yes Thailand has attacks, but last year aside they are entirely concentrated in three tiny provinces in the south on the border with Malaysia. Bangkok is as safe as any other East Asian city (at least where terrorism is concerned).

Out of intetest why don't you like Istanbul? I found it one of the most beautiful and pleasant cities I've been to- the waiter's attitudes aside lol

4EVER2 wrote:

eddie wrote:A taxi driver dropped the men off at the airport?
I do hope he's being looked at by the police as he's either an assistant to them or dead.

Who picks up three men, dressed in black carrying guns/big bags/ other?

Plausible ...golf bags '?' could hide those short muzzled military guns   there's all sorts of video tape that is showing some images ...so once again, this is going to take some time to unwrap for details.

The Devil, You Know wrote:

eddie wrote:A taxi driver dropped the men off at the airport?
I do hope he's being looked at by the police as he's either an assistant to them or dead.

Who picks up three men, dressed in black carrying guns/big bags/ other?

I doubt they were sat in the back with the guns across their laps.