OLAS Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Two explosions & gunfire heard. Suicide bombers apparently blew themselves up at the x-ray machine. 10 dead apparently. Mental world we live in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumnio Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 28 dead now, 60 injured, Turkey isnt having a great time of it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveyDenoon Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Feck, we fly oot to Turkey next Saturday ? Hopefully the holiday resorts, Dalaman airport and Marmaris area in particular, will remain unaffected as these issues seem largely restricted to Istanbul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottincarlisle Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Saying up to 3 attackers http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36658187 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Per twitter a senior Turkish official says that there are around 50 dead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLAS Posted June 28, 2016 Author Share Posted June 28, 2016 Felt a wee bit inconvenienced when asked to open my bag twice in Lyon's shopping centre, then I twigged. Quite right, too. I could have been carrying anything. 2 minutes is nothing in the grand scheme of things. These security guards are pretty much in the front line and normally I think they're jobsworths, but that's a dangerous job they're doing. Fair play. Apparently an Istanbul Airport worker wrestled one of the suicide bombers to the ground just before detonation. Feck seeing that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deecie Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 35 minutes ago, OLAS said: Felt a wee bit inconvenienced when asked to open my bag twice in Lyon's shopping centre, then I twigged. Quite right, too. I could have been carrying anything. 2 minutes is nothing in the grand scheme of things. These security guards are pretty much in the front line and normally I think they're jobsworths, but that's a dangerous job they're doing. Fair play. Apparently an Istanbul Airport worker wrestled one of the suicide bombers to the ground just before detonation. Feck seeing that! You should visit Tel Aviv. The levels of security there are insane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekfaejapan Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 6 hours ago, deecie said: You should visit Tel Aviv. The levels of security there are insane. Aye, EL AL security was pretty solid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flora MaDonald Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Christ, an ex girlfriend of mine (still good pals) was there. Her phone's just ringing out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dipped flake Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 11 hours ago, DaveyDenoon said: Feck, we fly oot to Turkey next Saturday ? Hopefully the holiday resorts, Dalaman airport and Marmaris area in particular, will remain unaffected as these issues seem largely restricted to Istanbul. Was in Marmaris 2 weeks ago and everything was fine. Just pretty quiet as a lot of tourists are staying away. This latest incident certainly isn't going to help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parklife Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Horrible stuff. So, so sad. Turkey really is on the frontline of so many of our worlds major issues. Syria, Iraq, IS generally and also their own conflicts with Russia and, internally, the Kurds. Sucessive Governments have let the Turkish people badly down. A wonderful country, full of diversity and such welcoming people. Tourism is struggling badly and attacks like this will put people off even more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 1 hour ago, dipped flake said: Was in Marmaris 2 weeks ago and everything was fine. Just pretty quiet as a lot of tourists are staying away. This latest incident certainly isn't going to help Aye we are in Sarigerme and its dead, aparently the Russians just dont come now and thata like 3/4 of their buisness. Shame as the barstaff and shops giys etc are really nice and you can see they are struggling. Never knew anythin until i got a feq messages checking if we were ok this morn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deecie Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 5 hours ago, derekfaejapan said: Aye, EL AL security was pretty solid. It was crazy. My plane arrived, the airbridge attached, I walked down it to be stopped by 3 teenage girls with machine guns asking where I'd come from. Thought it was pretty obvious myself. Ive also never been so interrogated about every stamp in my passport. Great place to visit though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekfaejapan Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 47 minutes ago, deecie said: It was crazy. My plane arrived, the airbridge attached, I walked down it to be stopped by 3 teenage girls with machine guns asking where I'd come from. Thought it was pretty obvious myself. Ive also never been so interrogated about every stamp in my passport. Great place to visit though. I never got that at the airport in Tel-Aviv, possibly because the friend I was visiting was an EL-AL employee who was already at the gate to meet me, take me through immigration etc, all the airport staff seemed to know her too which no doubt helped...Flying out from Heathrow was where I got grilled by their own security staff, my hand luggage was also taken from me and not given back until I was on the aircraft (a procedure I've never seen on any other airline). Great place to visit though, definitely one of my favourite trips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan cake Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 (edited) always fancied israel for a football trip not trying to be the big man but these chunts wont be stopping me traveling anywhere fucck um, lives too short Edited June 29, 2016 by dan cake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveyDenoon Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 11 hours ago, dipped flake said: Was in Marmaris 2 weeks ago and everything was fine. Just pretty quiet as a lot of tourists are staying away. This latest incident certainly isn't going to help Yeah it's a real shame. We're on a family holiday so being quiet won't be disastrous for us, but it's going to hammer their tourist industry which is awful because as Parklife says they're such lovely welcoming and friendly people they really don't deserve this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deecie Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 7 hours ago, derekfaejapan said: I never got that at the airport in Tel-Aviv, possibly because the friend I was visiting was an EL-AL employee who was already at the gate to meet me, take me through immigration etc, all the airport staff seemed to know her too which no doubt helped...Flying out from Heathrow was where I got grilled by their own security staff, my hand luggage was also taken from me and not given back until I was on the aircraft (a procedure I've never seen on any other airline). Great place to visit though, definitely one of my favourite trips. The way back was even worse, my taxi en-route to the airport was stopped and had everything searched. Stopped and searched at the front door. Everything got taken out at security, it was just non-stop. Would visit again, great people, great place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VASCO Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 It was not so much the security at the airports (I was at both) in Tel Aviv, but the baggage checks going into the railway station. Also, the carry on at Ataturk was in the arrivals hall. In my four visits in the last year to Istanbul the arrivals hall has been full of pre-booked taxi drivers. It must have been they who made up most of the casualties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 On 29/06/2016 at 4:21 PM, dan cake said: always fancied israel for a football trip not trying to be the big man but these chunts wont be stopping me traveling anywhere fucck um, lives too short Israel are s wouldnt go near them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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