Police
said that before the attack was carried out the assailants threw away
their laptop, which contained key organizational information, after
damaging its hard disk.
According to reports, Osman was the
attacker who rented the cell house in Fatih while police found a copy of
his passport through the apartment’s realtor.
Meanwhile, a
total of 11 suspected foreign militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL) were detained in Istanbul early on July 1 in
connection with the deadly suicide attack on the city’s main airport,
daily Habertürk has reported.
Istanbul counter-terrorism police
carried out an operation against an ISIL cell in the Başakşehir district
on suspicion that they are linked to the three suicide bombers who
staged the deadly attack at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport on June 28.
Eleven suspects, including some of Russian
nationality who were staying in the city, were apprehended in the
operation, as the total number of suspects detained over the attack
increased to 24.
Another 13 people, four of whom are foreigners,
were detained in Istanbul on June 30 in a dawn operation on 16
different addresses in several districts, including Pendik, Başakşehir
and Sultanbeyli.
At least 44 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in the suicide bomb attack at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport blamed on the jihadist group.
