ISIS claims responsibility of New Year Eve massacre in Istanbul, Turkey retaliates with airstrikes

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the New Year's Day mass shooting in a nightclub in Istanbul in which 39 people were killed and 69 wounded - the gunman is still at large. Turkey has retaliated by sending its fighter jets and tanks to strike 100 ISIS targets in Syria just hours after the terror group's attack.
Warplanes of Turkey used rockets to obliterate ISIS hideouts near the towns of al-Bab, Tadif and Bzagah in the north of the war-torn country - at least 22 extremists have been killed and many buildings destroyed.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 2 January 2017.

Turkish authorities are continuing their manhunt for the nightclub killer who had arrived in a taxi dressed as Santa Claus before slaughtering partygoers in the nightclub.
AS revealed by Turkey's state-run news agency, more than 100 ISIS targets in Syria were hit by Turkey and Russia in separate operations. Russian jets also attacked ISIS targets in Dayr Kak, eight five miles to the southwest of Al Bab.


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Killer in Santa Claus costume kills 39 in New Year Eve party in Istanbul

A killer dressed in Santa Claus costume kills 39 in New Year Eve party in an Istanbul club. There are at least 16 foreigners were among the people people killed in the gun attack during New Year festivities. The attack took place shortly after midnight in the club where an estimated 600 people were celebrating New Year’s eve.
21 of the victims have been identified so far and, 16 of them are foreigners and five are Turks. Another 69 people have been injured and are being treated in hospital for their wounds.
This has been reported in thehindu.com dated 1 January 2016.

The attacker managed to escape and is still at large. He opened fire in the nightclub during New Year’s celebrations and it has been described as a terror attack by the province’s governor. The attacker was armed with a long-barreled weapon and he killed a policeman and a civilian outside the club before entering and firing on people partying inside.
It was the Reina nightclub, in Istanbul’s Ortakoy district. Ankara and Istanbul have been targeted by several attacks in 2016 carried out by the Islamic State group or Kurdish rebels and these have killed more than 180 people.


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