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Turkey arrests 17 suspects in connection with Ataturk Airport attack

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Security operatives in Turkey have arrested 17 suspects, mostly foreigners, in connection with the Ataturk Airport suicide attack which occurred in Istanbul last week claiming the lives of 45 people and wounding hundreds.

The number of those arrested in connection with the airport attack has now reached 30 people who have been jailed pending trial for an attack described as the deadliest in a series of bombings this year in Turkey with President Tayyip Erdogan positing that the attack is the work of Islamic State militants from the ex-Soviet Union.

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The attack at the Ataturk Airport was followed by major attacks in Bangladesh, Iraq and Saudi Arabia in the past week, all apparently timed for the run-up to Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the Ramadan holy fasting month.

“The incident is of course completely within the framework of Daesh, a process conducted with their methods,” Erdogan told reporters after praying at an Istanbul mosque at the start of the holiday. Daesh is an Arabic acronym for Islamic State.

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