Yyldyrym: There is an “Islamic state” behind the attack on the airport in Istanbul.

At the attack on Ataturk Airport in Istanbul is the Islamic State. About this, as Sabah Daily writes , said Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yyldyrym.

“All primary signs indicate that IS is behind the attack, the investigation continues,” the prime minister quoted the publication.

According to him, three terrorists-suicide bombers who came to a taxi airport participated in the attack. At first they opened fire from weapons, and then blew themselves up.

The exact number of victims has not yet been established. The Turkish prime minister announced 36 dead and 147 wounded. Prior to this, the Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdag said that 31 people died.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sharply condemned the actions of attackers who killed innocent people in Ramadan, and urged the international community to strengthen the fight against terrorism.

“This attack in the Holy month Ramadan once again shows that terrorism strikes without looking back to faith and values. I hope that the attack in Istanbul will become a turning point for a general fight against terrorism with the participation of all countries of the world,” Erdogan BBC quotes .

The airport will remain closed presumably for 48 hours. Aeroflot and British Airways aircraft, which were supposed to land in Istanbul, returned to Moscow and London, respectively.

According to the "German wave", after the attacks at the airport, the aircraft with the Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama, who arrived in Turkey on an official visit, managed to land at the airport. The politician and his accompanying persons were taken to the official residence.

As a result of the attack, a Russian was injured, the Russian Consulate General of Russia in Istanbul reported. "The affected citizen of Russia called himself Lubnin Alexander Vladimirovich. His citizenship is confirmed by the hospital, however, we have no official information from the Turkish authorities on this subject. We personally could not find out the details of him, since he was prepared for the operation," RIA Novosti quoted the words of the Russian diplomatic mission in Istanbul.

As a result of the attack, a citizen of Ukraine died. "According to updated data, as a result of the terrorist attack, one citizen of Ukraine died at Istanbul airport and one citizen of Ukraine (a fragment is in the leg) was wounded," the Ukrainian Facebook Foreign Ministry said .

Three explosions made by suicide bombers thundered at the entrance, output and parking lot in the international terminal of the Ataturk Airport at about 22.00 on Tuesday. The attackers first opened fire from machine guns, and then blew themselves up. According to eyewitnesses, one of the explosions occurred in the crowd in front of the scope of metal detectors located at the entrance to the airport building.