Former Guantánamo Detainee Arrested for Ties to Istanbul Airport Attack
Posted on July 7, 2016
Airat Vakhitov, a Tatar formerly imprisoned at the U.S. military facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for ties to the Taliban, has been arrested in Turkey in connection with last month’s siege of Istanbul Atatürk Airport.
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