05-01-2017 11:36 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Turkey says Istanbul nightclub attacker probably Uighur

By Daren Butler and Tulay Karadeniz ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - The man who killed 39 people in an attack on an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day is probably an ethnic Uighur and Turkish security services now know where he might be hiding, Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said on Thursday. Kaynak described the man as a "specially trained" member of a cell who carried out the attack alone and said that while the possibility of him fleeing abroad could not be ruled out, security operations in
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