Three more people were detained early Sunday as a part of investigation into Tuesday’s deadly Istanbul Ataturk Airport attack, Turkish security sources said, Anadolu reported.
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Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on July 3 that a total of 29 suspects, including foreign nationals, were detained in connection to the attack.
It is known that Turkish Islamist and nationalist circles support the fight of the Caucasus and Central Asian Turkish peoples against Russia and in the past Chechen terrorists have used Turkey to stage attacks against Russian targets.
Three bombers opened fire to create panic outside the airport before two of them got inside and blew themselves up. The third militant detonated his explosives outside at the entrance to the worldwide arrivals terminal.
Three militants armed with assault rifles and suicide bombs stormed Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport on June 28.
Authorities believe the attackers were a Russian, an Uzbek and a Kyrgyz national.
According to the private Dogan news agency, the pair arrived from Ukraine and were netted at the airport.
On Sunday, 14 others were arrested, including 11 foreigners. Russian Federation fought two wars against Chechen separatists in the North Causcasus in the 1990s, and more recently has fought Islamist insurgents in Dagestan.
He said that Russian Federation had consistently supported cooperation between all states in fighting terrorism, which was a universal threat. He is identified on a United Nations sanctions list as an ISIS leader responsible for training Russian-speaking militants.
The antiterror officials said that “media reports are premature and incorrect until the official results of DNA and other forensic tests are available”, the ministry said.
An Azerbaijani man, suspected of being involved in the Ataturk Airport terrorist attack, was detained and identified in Istanbul, the Turkish Haberturk newspaper wrote July 4.
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The security officials have not revealed details about suspects K.V. and F.M.I., but said they were aged 25 and 35 respectively. In addition to the spillover from the civil war in Syria it is also fighting a Kurdish insurgency in its largely Kurdish southeast.
