IF ONE hope united Turks at the start of 2017 it was that the new year would bring respite from the horrors of the old one, the most violent the country has seen in decades. That hope died in a hail of bullets barely an hour after midnight on January 1st, when a gunman struck at one of Istanbul’s best known nightclubs, killing at least 39 people, including at least 15 foreigners, and wounding dozens more. An eyewitness quoted by a Turkish website said she lost consciousness after being crushed by a panicked crowd. “My husband...jumped on top of me. People ran over me,” she said. When she came to, she saw her husband covered in blood.
Official reports suggested that the attacker, armed with a machine gun, shot dead a police officer near the club’s entrance before mowing down revellers inside. At the time of writing, the attacker was still at large. As many as 600 people had been celebrating the turn of the year at the waterfront venue, a waiter injured in the attack told a Turkish newspaper. Some reportedly saved themselves by leaping into the Bosporus, the strait connecting the Black and Marmara Seas. The club owner told another newspaper...Continue reading
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