Istanbul Ataturk Airport bombings June 2016

Georgian authorities confirm Akhmed Chatayev died in Nov 22 Tbilisi siege

By | December 3rd, 2017|Categories: News|Tags: , , |

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s State Security Service (SUS) acknowledged Friday that one of the suspects killed in a counterterrorism operation Nov 22 was Akhmed Chatayev. Local media have speculated that the Chechnya-born ISIS member was among the dead. […]

Mastermind of Ataturk Airport attack may be among 3 suspects killed in Tbilisi siege

By | November 26th, 2017|Categories: News|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch–One of the three terrorism suspects killed in a shootout with police on November 22 might be a Chechen who oversaw the Ataturk Airport bombings in 2016 which claimed 45 lives. Vakhtang Gomelauri, head of the State Security Agency (SUS), […]

Speaker of parliament wants full disclosure about Istanbul mastermind

By | July 5th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , , , |

TBILISI, DFWatch–The speaker of Georgia’s parliament says people must know the truth about the suspected Istanbul bombing mastermind and his role in a mysterious shooting incident in Georgia in 2012. The same day, a member of government […]

Georgia denies that Istanbul airport attack’s mastermind was its citizen

By | July 4th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , |

Akhmed Chatayev in Tbilisi in 2012. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Russia and Georgia disagree about what citizenship the suspected mastermind behind the terror attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport June 28 has. Russia claims Akhmed Chatayev is not a Russian but a Georgian citizen. Georgia, on the other hand, […]

Was Istanbul airport attack organized by militant with links to Georgia?

By | June 30th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , , |

Akhmed Chatayev. (Interpressnews.) Chatayev was missing his left leg and right arm as he appeared outside the court building in Tbilisi in December, 2012. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The terrorist attack at Istanbul Atatürk Airport on 28 June, which claimed the lives of 44 victims and three suicide bombers and left 239 people wounded, is believed to have been organized by Akhmed Chatayev, a Russian national […]