ISTANBUL, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Forty-six suspects went on trial Monday in Istanbul over their alleged roles in planning last year's triple suicide bombing attacks on the city's Ataturk Airport that left 45 people dead.
The suspects are asked to be sentenced to 46-time aggravated life imprisonment each over "attempting to destroy the constitutional order" and "murder," the state-run Anadolu Agency said.
In addition, they are accused of "being members of an armed terror group" and "forming and running a terror group," charges that could put each of them in jail for up to 3,342 years if convicted, the agency said.
Citing the indictment, Anadolu said the suspects are from Russia, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Syria and Turkey, with four of them still at large.
On June 28 last year, three suicide bombers opened fire at crowds and then blew themselves up at Ataturk Airport in one of the worst terror attacks that hit the country that year.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Turkish authorities blamed it on the Islamic State.
