https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/world/europe/istanbul-church-shooting.html
Two masked gunmen shot and killed a man during a church service on Sunday morning in Istanbul, Turkish officials said, an attack that the Islamic State later took responsibility for.
In a communiqué issued Sunday evening, ISIS said that the attack was in response to a call by the terrorist group’s leadership to target Jews and Christians everywhere, according to the SITE intelligence group, which monitors extremist propaganda.
The attack took place around 11:40 a.m. at the Santa Maria church, an Italian Catholic church in the Sariyer district of Istanbul, the interior minister, Ali Yerlikaya, wrote on the social media platform X. On Sunday night, Mr. Yerlikaya identified the victim as Tuncer Cihan and said that two suspects had been arrested.
According to SITE, the Islamic State said that the assailants had carried out the attack using pistols, killing one and wounding at least one other….
Two masked gunmen shot and killed a man during a church service on Sunday morning in Istanbul, Turkish officials said, an attack that the Islamic State later took responsibility for.
In a communiqué issued Sunday evening, ISIS said that the attack was in response to a call by the terrorist group’s leadership to target Jews and Christians everywhere, according to the SITE intelligence group, which monitors extremist propaganda.
The attack took place around 11:40 a.m. at the Santa Maria church, an Italian Catholic church in the Sariyer district of Istanbul, the interior minister, Ali Yerlikaya, wrote on the social media platform X. On Sunday night, Mr. Yerlikaya identified the victim as Tuncer Cihan and said that two suspects had been arrested.
According to SITE, the Islamic State said that the assailants had carried out the attack using pistols, killing one and wounding at least one other….
