Atatürk Airport attack

Two of the four ISIL-K gunmen who carried out the bloody terrorist attack in Moscow had stayed in Istanbul for a short time in the previous months, but they did not become radicalized during their stay in Turkish territory, Turkish security sources have said.

At least nine foreign nationals were detained in Turkey's capital Ankara on Feb. 26 over their suspected links to the ISIL terrorist group, according to state-run Anadolu Agency.

Citing anonymous security sources, the agency said prosecutors issued detention warrants for 10 foreign nationals allegedly in contact with terror group members in conflict zones.

Istanbul police detained a Nigerian national who was carrying over five kilograms of cocaine at the Istanbul Atatürk Airport, according to a police statement on Dec. 8.

Turkey is sent into mourning once more after the Dec. 10 terror attack claimed the lives of 44 people in the heart of Istanbul

Turkey has declared a day of national mourning after twin attacks in Istanbul killed at least 38 people, including 30 police officers, late on Dec. 10, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The Ankara Governor's Office released an official written statement, notifying that a day of national mourning had been declared to commemorate the victims of the attack.

Turkish authorities imposed July 16 a security lockdown at the İncirlik air base in the southern province of Adana used by U.S. and other coalition forces in the fight against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria, the U.S. consulate said.

Flights on Turkish Airlines  at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, Europe's third-largest hub, returned to their normal schedule on July 16, a spokesman said, after an attempted coup by the military targeted the facility.
 
Operational delays are expected after the airport was shut to traffic overnight, the spokesman told Reuters.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuoşğlu has said Ankara has demanded return of eight coup attempter soldiers , who landed on Alexandroupolis in Greece.

"We demanded the urgent return of eight traitor soldiers who escaped to Greece on a helicopter," he said.

The minister said Greek authorities said they were ready to cooperate. 

A total of 2,839 soldiers have been detained over the charges of coup attempt, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said July 16 in a press briefing. 

There are high-ranking officers among the detained.

Broadcaster CNNTürk said four of them were generals and 29 of them were colonels.

At least 90 people have been killed and 1154 were wounded during the clashes and incidents after a group of soldiers attempted a coup starting from late on July 15, Anadolu Agency reported. 

A prosecutor in the Gölbaşı district said 42 of the dead were in Ankara.