Turkey close to identifying Istanbul attacker - deputy prime minister

Turkish authorities are close to fully identifying the gunman responsible for an attack on an Istanbul nightclub which killed 39 people on New Year's Day and have detained eight other people, the government's spokesman said on Monday. In the process after this, work to identify him swiftly will be carried out," Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told a news conference. Turkey sent tanks and special forces into Syria just over four months ago to push back Islamic State militants from its borde