{"id":4872,"date":"2016-06-29T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourism.plus4d.com\/2016\/06\/29\/attack-at-istanbuls-main-airport-ataturk-international\/"},"modified":"2016-06-29T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T10:00:05","slug":"attack-at-istanbuls-main-airport-ataturk-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/?p=4872","title":{"rendered":"attack at Istanbul\u2019s main airport- Ataturk International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 900; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 41 people have been killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack at Istanbul\u2019s main airport, Ataturk International.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Assailants believed to be tied to Islamic State are reported to have opened fire outside the airport\u2019s main terminal building on Tuesday, before a series of bombs were detonated. At least 90 other people were injured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Amazingly however, Ataurk Airport as already reopened, and Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim was reported saying that air traffic is back to normal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Turkish Airlines said in a statement on Wednesday that it is \u201cclosely monitoring the incident\u2026 and is in touch with all appropriate authorities\u201d. Passengers due to fly to Istanbul today are advised to check with their airline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The incident comes six months after a bomb killed one person at Istanbul\u2019s second airport, Sabiha Gokcen, and just three months after IS militants attacked Brussels Airport. The Sabiha Gokcen blast was claimed by Kurdish militants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ataturk was the 11th busiest airport in the world in 2015, according to data from Airports Council International (ACI), handling a total of 61.8 million passengers<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 41 people have been killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack at Istanbul\u2019s main airport, Ataturk International. Assailants believed to be tied to Islamic State are reported to have opened fire outside the airport\u2019s main terminal building on Tuesday, before a series of bombs were detonated. At least 90 other people were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}