ISIS has claimed responsibility for a suicide gun and bomb attack on the Ataturk international airport in Istanbul that has claimed the lives of at least 28 people and injured 60.
Three attackers were reportedly involved in what appears to be a major co-ordinated assault. Reports indicate that all three attackers have been killed.
— Traveler Joe Durand told CNN from the airport that “Police are not letting anyone in … Hundreds of people are flooding away from airport… People are trying to get away. They’re not saying much — just the look on their face is enough, shock, some of them bleeding…”“People are walking away bleeding, with bandages on their head.”— Traveler Laurence Cameron described what he saw after he stepped off a plane: “It was just a massive crowd of screaming people. Some were falling over themselves. A poor chap in a wheelchair was just left, and everyone just rushed to the back of the building, and then people ran the other way and no one really seemed to know what was going on,” he told CNN. “Where you normally hail a taxi, that is where the attack happened. The ground is just kind of shredded. There is bloodstains on the floor as well.”— Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag earlier said one attacker “first opened fire with a Kalashnikov then detonated himself” at the airport entrance.— In total three bombs exploded, the governor told TRT.— One of them was located just outside a terminal on the pavement, while the other was at the security gate at the entrance to the airport, Bozdag told CNN.— Authorities said no bombs exploded within airport buildings, according to the minister.— A video posted to Twitter shows a view from a camera inside an airport terminal. A few dozen people are walking around when a bright flash and fireball erupt in the background.— A Turkish official told CNN that police fired shots at suspects near the international terminal in an effort to neutralize them.— Videos posted on social media show travelers sitting on the airport floor. A man shouts, “Get down! Get down!” Someone cries as a gunshot rings out.Istanbul Ataturk Airport— It’s the 11th busiest in the world in terms of terms of passenger traffic (2015)
— It’s Europe’s third busiest airport (2015)
— Almost 62 million passengers pass through each year
— There are two main passenger terminals
— Terminal 1 is older, smaller and handles domestic travel
— Terminal 2 is the newer, bigger international terminal
— There is a vehicle checkpoint at the entrance to the airport compound
— There is also an X-ray security checkpoint before entering the terminal
— The airport is roughly 15 miles from the city
Source: Airports Council International/CNN
— U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, referencing the attack in Istanbul, told an audience at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Tuesday, “We are still collecting information and trying to ascertain what happened and who did it.”— Ataturk Airport is “one of the most secure airports in the world,” CNN senior law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes says. But the airport has been “very overwhelmed for several decades with terrorism from PKK.”— The U.S. embassy in Ankara, the Turkish capital, is sending consular officers to the airport to account for any potential U.S. victims. But there are no indications of any American casualties at this point, a senior State Department official told CNN’s Elise Labott.— The attacks happened on a warm summer night at the airport, east of Istanbul, that is the 11th busiest in the world in terms of passenger traffic. CNN’s Ali Veshi says it is a modern, sophisticated airport. “There are all of the major European and American boutiques there,” said Velshi, who has traveled through Turkey many times. “… You see people of all shapes and colors, in all sorts of dress. If you want to target the cosmopolitan nature of Istanbul, this is possibly the most cosmopolitan, heavily populated part. You can target tourist areas, but this is the part where the world comes together.”
Source: CNN
Good job Obama and liberals, more blood on your hands that you’ll have to answer for when you all stand before God.
For almost eight years we have been a nation under not “God”, and not our constitution, but a nation under President Barrack Obama. We live in a nation with a leader that has forced us to buy a health plan which we do not want. We live in a nation that seemingly gives more rights to illegal immigrants than legal immigrants. We live in a nation with a leader that promotes dis-respecting the law and it’s officers. We live in a nation which has a leader that has taken away our 1st Amendment rights and desires to take away our 2nd Amendment rights as well. Americans no longer have freedom of Speech and Americans are in fear of losing their right to own guns. We live in a nation that no longer rewards hard work and requires qualifications, but rewards those because of their race. We live in a nation with a leader that cares not what the people want, but what he and his party wants. We live in a nation with a leader who in his quest for globalization has put Americans at risk. Our President has put our nation and its citizens at risk, just as the European leaders have put their people and their nations at risk. By Obama and Europe’s desire for globalization they have taken away the rights and the freedoms of the people, putting the lives of Muslim immigrants first, and the lives of their people last.
What are the Democratic Far Left Liberals going to say now??? Obviously no guns were used in Istanbul, but if you do the math, a suicide bomber can kill a lot more people with a bomb, than a gun. It took the Orlando terrorist several hours to kill 49 and injure over 50. It only took 3 suicide bombers to kill 28 and injure over 60 and they did it in a matter of seconds.. Imagine an hour of several dozen suicide bombers, how many would they kill?? The anti gun rhetoric in America is total B******T!!!! A bomb will kill more innocent lives than a gun any day of the week!!! Our guns are the only defense against these Radical Islamic Animals and the Far Left Liberals want to pass more laws to restrict our constitutional right to bear arms… Maybe they should be the first ones on the front line, since they know that guns are the root to the problem… Stupidity is a disease without a cure…
Hurry….ban assault weapons
More Thanks to Dictator Obola and Killary Clinton.
More racist violence?
Obama will turn around and try to blame Christian Conservatives with guns, while running cover for his Muslim Brothers!
Prayers going out to the victims and their families in Istanbul ! If the free world doesn’t put a stop to ISIS. This will be just like WWII when the free world had to fight the Nazis of the third Reich !
What are the Democratic Far Left Liberals going to say now??? Obviously no guns were used in Istanbul, but if you do the math, a suicide bomber can kill a lot more people with a bomb, than a gun. It took the Orlando terrorist several hours to kill 49 and injure over 50. It only took 3 suicide bombers to kill 28 and injure over 60 and they did it in a matter of seconds.. Imagine an hour of several dozen suicide bombers, how many would they kill?? The anti gun rhetoric in America is total B******T!!!! A bomb will kill more innocent lives than a gun any day of the week!!! Our guns are the only defense against these Radical Islamic Animals and the Far Left Liberals want to pass more laws to restrict our constitutional right to bear arms… Maybe they should be the first ones on the front line, since they know that guns are the root to the problem…
Maybe we should all take Loretta Lynch’s advice, I guess some LOVE goes a long way, that should stop them!!!
That’s white Christian Conservatives with guns, you know the racist bigots .