“Ataturk International Airport, like Brussels Airport which was attacked earlier this year, is a symbol of international connections and the ties that bind us together,” Earnest said in a statement. A radical Kurdish faction last year attacked another Istanbul airport, Sabiha Gokcen. A Turkish Twitter user posted video of what appeared to be one of the explosions, apparently launched after police shot and felled one of the bombers, who then set off his explosives. “We wish them, their relatives & all airport staff strength & courage.”In the aftermath of the bombings, hundreds of passengers flooded out of the airport. “The bombs that exploded in Istanbul today could have gone off at any airport in any city around the world,” Erdogan said in a statement.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 28, 2016 19:32 UTC