Another showed an attacker, felled by a gunshot from a security officer, blowing himself up seconds later.
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But one guard at Ataturk, who was working when the bombers struck, expressed doubt the promised extra security staff would ever arrive. Turkish officials believe the attack was carried out by the Islamic State group.
The United Nations has said he directly commands 130 militants. Three of those detained were foreign nationals, state media reported. The Islamic State group is the main suspect for that attack. They were joined by the Albanian prime minister.
Turkey’s government has blamed the attacks that left 41 people dead on ISIS extremists.
Erdogan said: “The separatist organization on one side, the YPG on the other. then the dark organization called Daesh”. “They went from a cold war, to a limited war, and are now moving towards full-scale war” with each other, said Mr Cagaptay.
South African Judy Favish, who spent two days in Istanbul as a layover on her way home from Dublin, had just checked in when she heard an explosion followed by gunfire and a loud bang.
Another image shows a man dressed in black walking with a gun and appearing to shoot a people in the airport, Turkish news site Hurriyet reports.
Elsewhere, Berlin’s famous Brandenburg Gate, Paris’s Eiffel Tower, Amsterdam’s Royal Palace, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s historic Mostar Bridge, the Kuwait Towers, and the Tbilisi TV Broadcasting Tower in Georgia also received the same treatment.
Turkish authorities, who re-opened the airport within hours of the attack, said air traffic had returned to normal by Friday.
It is understood the group had already been under watch but following the attack at Ataturk airport authorities made a decision to move in.
A gun and bomb attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk airport has resulted in at least 36 deaths and over 147 injuries, according to reports.
Two Palestinian women and a three year-old boy were among those killed.
An investigation is ongoing into the foreign national, the statement added.
Dozens of anxious friends and relatives remain camped outside Istanbul’s Bakirkoy hospital, waiting for news.
A Turkish official says one attacker is originally from the Russian region of Dagestan.
Mourners carry the coffin of Muhammed Eymen Demirci, killed Tuesday at the blasts in Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, during the funeral in Istanbul’s Basaksehir neighbourhood, Wednesday, June 29, 2016.
A Kalashnikov assault rifle, a handgun and two grenades were found on the bodies, Turkish media said. “Tomorrow maybe, when conditions change”.
The fate of Bayoudh’s son is unclear. As part of a deal to secure Turkish help in cutting the flow of migrants into Europe, the European Union wants Turkey to narrow its legal definition of terrorism and amend other laws to bring them in line with European Union standards.
He said a prayer in front of a memorial set up for the victims, which features the pictures of airport employees who were killed in the rampage.
Mr. Halstead said “we have to be cognizant of the fact that the threat environment is changing across the world”. “And I hope we come to an agreement”.
Turkey’s Sabah newspaper, which is close to the government, said police had launched a manhunt to catch the alleged mastermind.
On Thursday, 13 people were taken into police custody in a sweep of 16 different locations around Istanbul.
The Izmir raids unfolded simultaneously in the neighborhoods of Konak, Bucak, Karabaglar and Bornova, according to Anadolu Agency. Those arrested in simultaneous raids on houses and sites in the cities of Istanbul and Izmir on Thursday morning include three foreigners, and security sources said that they are nationals of former Soviet Republics.
Some agencies named one of the men as Osman Vadinov, said to have crossed into Turkey from the Islamic State group stronghold of Raqqa in Syria in 2015.
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“We’ve seen already the attacks in Belgium”.
