The 2016 Istanbul airport attack was a terrorist attack at Ataturk Airport, the main international airport of Istanbul, carried out by three attackers who opened fire and detonated suicide bombs at the terminal. More than forty people were killed and over two hundred wounded, including many foreigners and airport workers. The Turkish authorities blamed the Islamic State group, which did not formally claim responsibility. The attack came during a wave of bombings in Turkey linked to the conflict in Syria and to the Kurdish insurgency, and it affected the country's tourism industry. Security at the airport was tightened afterwards.
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