Taken on January 12, this file photo shows a man who collects paper dragging his cart past an illuminated fountain in front of the Blue Mosque, in Istanbul’s tourist hub of Sultanahmet. The tourists are so scarce nowadays you can hear their footsteps clattering down the empty shopping street. Nearly a week after the deadly airport bombings, it is eerily quiet in Istanbul. AFP PHOTO
ISTANBUL: Thirteen suspects, including 10 Turks, were charged on Sunday over the Istanbul airport suicide bombings, the deadliest of several attacks to strike Turkey’s biggest city this year, the Dogan news agency reported.