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Istanbul airport: 2 explosions, gunfire,Turkish interior ministry says
CNN ^ | June 28, 2016 | Mohammed Tawfeeq

Posted on 06/28/2016 12:45:09 PM PDT by C19fan

Two explosions and gunfire took place at the Istanbul Ataturk airport Tuesday, the Turkish interior ministry said.

The ministry reported multiple injuries, but the exact number was not immediately clear.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airport; ataturk; ataturkairport; islam; ist; istanbul; istanbulairport; terrorism; turkey; turkish
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To: ichabod1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sl4XCVmoXg


21 posted on 06/28/2016 1:02:38 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: C19fan

Israel and Turkey Agree to Resume Full Diplomatic Ties
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/world/middleeast/israel-and-turkey-agree-to-resume-full-diplomatic-ties.html

Coincidence that a couple of days later this bombing happens?


22 posted on 06/28/2016 1:02:53 PM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: C19fan

I didn’t know Turkish airports had gay bars in them. Who’da thunk?


23 posted on 06/28/2016 1:04:17 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: C19fan

Must be just a little workplace violence over the last yogurt cup in the staff lunchroom.


24 posted on 06/28/2016 1:08:47 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: C19fan

I wonder what happened? I wish we could pin point the reason.


25 posted on 06/28/2016 1:24:14 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: samadams2000

No statement yet from Imam Obama?


26 posted on 06/28/2016 1:27:27 PM PDT by Ray76 (The evil effect of Obergefell is to deprive the people of rule of law & subject us to tyranny!)
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To: samadams2000

Other thread poster noted that Israel and Turkey agreed to normalize relations this week.


27 posted on 06/28/2016 1:28:25 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: dmz

Just talked to my son several times who lives there. He was on way to airport to pick up our daughter-in-law who was just returning from US.

Trying to track her flight now but was scheduled to land after the blasts occured.

We will be tourists there later this year when we visit.


28 posted on 06/28/2016 1:33:28 PM PDT by jcon40
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To: C19fan

Radical Amish terrorists?


29 posted on 06/28/2016 1:41:56 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (HILLARY 2016 - SERIOUSLY? What are they thinking?)
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To: Ray76

He’s playing golf today...and it was the Amish or ‘work place violence’ that caused this.../s


30 posted on 06/28/2016 1:46:53 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: showme_the_Glory

**** Probably a couple of disgruntled baggage handlers ****

Last year this happened, too, IIRC. Cargo blown up as people frowned on Business as usual during Ramadan.


31 posted on 06/28/2016 1:58:13 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Donald Trump will ban auto-correct with an Executive Order. Go Trump!)
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To: C19fan

Security opened fire so the Muslim Tourists blew themselves up ?


32 posted on 06/28/2016 1:59:37 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: C19fan

Coming (again) soon to an airport near you.


33 posted on 06/28/2016 1:59:44 PM PDT by bestrongbpositive
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To: ConservativeStatement

Glenn Beck finally went?...............


34 posted on 06/28/2016 2:00:09 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: C19fan
I was in that airport 2 weeks ago. Turkey's tourist industry is already gone. A Wall Street Journal Article a month or so ago indicated that April 2016 to April 2015 tourism was down 28% across the country.

I stayed 4 nights in Istanbul was there on the day that a car bomb targeted a police bus. It was in an area not far from the University of Istanbul. The hotel I stayed at had about 53 rooms and is normally booked full. When I was there they had only 5 paying guests. There were no real lines at any of the major tourist attractions in Istanbul that I went to.

In talking to people Germans and Russian had been the major tourists. After the Turks shot down the Russian jet and Russia and Turkey imposed sanctions on each other, Russian tourists disappeared. After the ISIS bomber targeted a group of German Tourists, German tourists have disappeared. This will just increase the tourism death spiral that will harm the economy.

35 posted on 06/28/2016 2:03:00 PM PDT by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: C19fan

I’m surprised the airport is still named after Ataturk.


36 posted on 06/28/2016 2:06:26 PM PDT by dfwgator
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