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Two explosions have rocked Istanbul s Ataturk airport, killing at least 10 people.
Nearly 50 people have been killed in the Turkey airport attack.
The number of people wounded in the attack rose to 106, broadcaster NTV said, citing hospital sources.
Three suicide bombers opened fire before blowing themselves up at the entrance to the main international airport in Istanbul, the provincial governor said earlier.
Dogan News Agency cited police sources as saying: "ISIS is behind the attack" at Ataturk Airport. A Turkish official, however, said it was too early to confirm any links when asked about the Dogan News Agency report.
Governor Vasip Sahin has told local broadcaster NTV that three suicide bombers had carried out Tuesday's attack.
Officials had previously said one or two attackers had blown themselves up at the entrance to the international terminal at the airport after police fired at them.
Turkey's state-run Anadolu agency says around 60 people have been wounded, six of them seriously.
Police fired shots to try to stop the attackers just before they reached a security checkpoint at the arrivals hall of the Ataturk airport but they blew themselves up, one of the officials said.
Speaking earlier in parliament, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said that based on initial information he could only confirm that there had been one attacker.
"According to information I have received, at the entrance to the Ataturk Airport international terminal a terrorist first opened fire with a Kalashnikov and then blew themself up," he said in comments broadcast by CNN Turk.
Ataturk is Turkey's largest airport and a major transport hub for international travellers. Pictures posted on social media from the site showed wounded people lying on the ground inside and outside one of the terminal buildings.
One witness told CNN Turk that gunfire was heard from the car park at the airport.
After the explosions, hundreds of passengers spilled out of the airport with their suitcases in hand or stacked onto trolleys.
Two South African tourists, Paul and Susie Roos from Cape Town, getting to fly home, were shaken by what they witnessed.
"We came up from the arrivals to the departures, up the escalator when we heard these shots going off," Paul Roos said.
"There was this guy going roaming around, he was dressed in black and he had a hand gun."
Authorities have stopped the takeoff of scheduled flights from the airport and passengers have been transferred to hotels, a Turkish Airlines official said.
Turkey has suffered a spate of bombings this year, including two suicide attacks in tourist areas of Istanbul blamed on Islamic State, and two car bombings in the capital, Ankara, which were claimed by a Kurdish militant group.
In the most recent attack, a car bomb ripped through a police bus in central Istanbul during the morning rush hour, killing 11 people and wounding 36 near the main tourist district, a major university and the mayor's office.
Turkey, which is part of the US-led coalition against Islamic State, is also fighting Kurdish militants in its largely Kurdish southeast.
Daren Butler and Margarita Antidze - AAP on July 2, 2016, 9:20 am
Two Russian nationals have been identified as suspected Islamic State suicide bombers in the attack on Istanbul's main airport that is thought to have been masterminded by a Chechen, Turkish media reports.
Forty-four people were killed in Tuesday's bombings and shootings, which targeted one of the world's busiest airports.
Prosecutors have identified two of the three suspected attackers as Russians Rakim Bulgarov and Vadim Osmanov, state-run Anadolu Agency said on Friday.
Turkish officials declined to comment.
One government official had previously said the attackers were Russian, Uzbek and Kyrgyz nationals.
The pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper reports the organiser of the attack was suspected to be a Chechen double-amputee called Akhmed Chatayev.
Chatayev is identified on a United Nations sanctions list as a leader in IS responsible for training Russian-speaking militants.
He was arrested in Bulgaria five years ago on a Russian extradition request but freed because he had refugee status in Austria, a Bulgarian judge said.
A year later he was wounded and captured in Georgia but again released.
Turkish police on Friday detained 11 foreigners in Istanbul on suspicion of belonging to an IS cell linked to the attack, Anadolu reported, bringing the number of people detained in the investigation to 24.
A police spokesman could not confirm the report.
Turkish officials have not given many details beyond confirming the attackers' nationalities.
Yeni Safak has said one of the bombers was from Dagestan, which borders Chechnya where Moscow has led two wars against separatists and Islamist militants since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
Chatayev lost his arm after being captured by Russian forces during fighting in Chechnya in 2000 and later claimed he was tortured, according to a 2010 statement from Amnesty International, which had called on Ukraine not to extradite him to Russia at the time.
In a statement on Friday, Amnesty said it condemned the attack on the Istanbul airport and said it had opposed Chatayev's extradition on the grounds he faced torture, which was against human rights law.
In 2012, Georgian officials said Chatayev had been wounded in a special forces operation against an unidentified group in the remote Lopota Gorge near the border with Dagestan.
The group was believed to be made up of Russian Islamist insurgents fighting against Moscow's rule in the North Caucasus.
Chatayev, whose foot was later amputated due to his injuries, was arrested on charges of weapons possession.
He denied this and said that he had been sent to the gorge as a negotiator at the request of Georgian officials.
He was released on the orders of a Georgian court later that year and cleared of all charges in January 2013.
"He was released lawfully, whether it was a mistake or not," former Georgian interior minister Vakhtang Gomelauri said this year.
