The
suspects, including 11 foreigners, were sent to the Bakırköy Courthouse
following a medical examination, a source, who spoke on condition of
anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said.
They have been charged with being members of a terrorist organization.
Thirteen suspects linked to the Istanbul airport terror attack were remanded in custody by a court in Istanbul on July 3.
The defendants, including three foreigners, were jailed pending trial by a judge at Bakırköy Peace Court, the source said.
The exact nature of the charges they face is unknown.
Earlier
on July 3, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said 29 people had been
arrested in connection with the June 28 gun and bomb attack at Atatürk International Airport that left at least 45 dead and more than 200 injured.
Two suspected foreign members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were detained late on July 3 at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport, which was the scene of a deadly suicide attack blamed on the jihadist group last week.
Police units at the airport conducted identity checks and a body search on two suspects who had arrived from Ukraine at the airport’s international arrivals floor.
K.V., who holds Kyrgyz and Russian passports, and F.M.İ., a Kyrgyz national who also has residency in Ukraine, were detained following the checks.
Police
seized four thermal sharpshooter binoculars, three uniforms with
military camouflage, two passports, three Kyrgyz ID cards and five birth
certificates during the checks.
The two were also accused of
arranging passports and ID cards to women and couples with children in
areas controlled by ISIL, as well as providing birth certificates to
newborns in ISIL areas.
