Employees at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport attend a ceremony on June 30, 2016, at the global departure terminal for friends killed in the June 28 attack at the Turkish airport.
Advertisement
Two memorial services for victims were held at the airport, one of them honouring taxi drivers slain in the attack.
The Anadolu report did not provide the nationalities of the suspects. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but Turkish officials say they believe it was the work of the Islamic State group, which is based in neighboring Syria and Iraq and has operatives in Turkey. The assailants raised the suspicion of airport security on the day of the attack because they showed up in winter jackets on a summer day, several media reported.
Turkish security officials are not competent in terms of intelligence gathering to thwart such terror attacks, but they are quite efficient in terms of tracking the culprits after the fact.
While his whereabouts are unclear, Chatayev’s ties to jihadist activities are well-documented, McCaul said. One is Chechen or Daghestani from the Northern Caucasus, and the other two are from the Turkic republics of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Video footage showed one gunman tumbling to the ground, apparently felled by a police bullet, as passengers and airport workers scattered. Of those who were wounded, 94 remained in hospital, the Istanbul Governor’s office reported.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday criticized terrorist organizations, in particular Daesh, once again and said that they belong in hell, as he announced that the recent suicide attack in Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport was carried out by Daesh.
Last year, the U.S. Treasury added Chatayev to its list of terrorists, saying he was planning attacks against U.S. and Turkish facilities. The United Nations said he directly commands 130 militants.
Considering the number of soft targets in this country I’m surprised, yet thankful, there haven’t been even more attacks here, either by ISIS inspired lone wolfs, or actual ISIS cells.
Earlier, police carried out raids against suspected Islamic State cells in Istanbul and the Aegean coastal city of Izmir on Thursday, the state-run Anadolu agency said.
“They returned and came back with long-range rifles they took out from their suitcases, and passed the security control by opening fire randomly at people”, he said.
Turkish officials also were not able to confirm Chatayev’s role.
Russia’s Dagestan region – alleged home of the third attacker – has been caught up in clashes between Russian forces and Islamist fighters since the late 1990s.
“Ask anybody inside ISIS or who’s fought ISIS”.
A US congressman says a Chechen extremist organized the suicide bombing at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport that killed 44 people and wounded hundreds of others.
And the attacks appear to have been well-organized.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the Istanbul attack bore the “hallmark” of Islamic State and that one U.S. citizen had been slightly injured.
One man who owns a real estate agency said one of the men in the picture had lived in his apartment.
Iraqi journalist Steven Nabil was grabbing food at a Sbarro’s inside Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport when he heard the initial gunshots from Tuesday’s attack.
Advertisement
The pair agreed to meet in person after the phone call – clear signs that both leaders hope to put aside their past differences over how to respond to ISIS. “Who will look after them?” “He is a more advanced terrorist than Daesh”.
