The death toll for the attacks rose to 45 over the weekend, while around 240 people were wounded.
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Three militants armed with assault rifles and suicide bombs stormed Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport on June 28.
Yeni Safak said all 11 of the foreign suspects jailed yesterday were Russian nationals, while four of the 13 suspects remanded in custody on Sunday were foreigners.
The police found night-vision binoculars and military-style clothes in their suitcases, the agency said, along with two passports in different names.
Thirteen suspects, including 10 Turks, were charged on Sunday in the Istanbul airport suicide bombings, the deadliest of several attacks to strike Turkey’s biggest city this year, the Dogan news agency reported.
Fifty-two people are still being treated in hospital after suicide bombing attacks on Tuesday killed at least 44 others.
More than 5,000 ISIS suspects have been detained so far in Turkey as part of the country’s intense fight against extremism, Interior Minister Efkan Ala said Thursday.
Officials blamed the attack on the militant “Islamic State” group, but no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
A Turkish special force police officer stands guard as a stewardess walks nearby the explosion site at the Ataturk airport.
Russian nationals have been identified as two of the suspected bombers, Anadolu reported last week.
He said that Russian Federation had consistently supported cooperation between all states in fighting terrorism, which was a universal threat.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking to journalists in Istanbul, said the suspects included men from Russia’s volatile Caucasus region of Dagestan, as well as Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
