{"id":281914,"date":"2017-01-05T13:32:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T13:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=281914"},"modified":"2017-01-05T13:32:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T13:32:36","slug":"turkey-nightclub-attack-police-detain-several-uighurs-in-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=281914","title":{"rendered":"Turkey nightclub attack: Police &#8216;detain several Uighurs&#8217; in raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Turkey has arrested a number of people of Uighur origin over a deadly nightclub attack that killed 39, the state-run news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p>Those detained are believed to have come from China&#8217;s Xinjiang region with ties to the attacker, Anadolu says.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy PM Veysi Kaynak also said they were closing in on the gunman, who he said was possibly an ethnic Uighur.<\/p>\n<p>Police have already detained dozens over the deadly new year attack, but the main suspect remains on the run.<\/p>\n<p>So-called Islamic State (IS) says it carried out the attack over Turkey&#8217;s military involvement in the Syrian civil war.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities have reportedly tightened security at Turkey&#8217;s land borders and airports to prevent the attacker from fleeing the country.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish media have run images of a suspect, saying the pictures were handed out by the police. But the police have given no official details.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish foreign minister has said the authorities have identified the attacker, but has not given further details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__crosshead\"><strong>&#8216;Aiding and abetting&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Special forces made the early morning arrests at a housing complex in Selimpasa, a coastal town on the outskirts of Istanbul, after police were reportedly tipped off that individuals linked to the attacker were in the area.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/7E5B\/production\/_93274323_92eede26-c964-4302-8805-8dd2766c1eaf.jpg\" alt=\"Police special forces patrol outside the Reina nightclub which was attacked by a gunman, in Istanbul, Turkey, on 3 January\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><span class=\"story-image-copyright\">REUTERS<\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"media-caption__text\">Turkey has heightened security across the country, including at land borders and airports<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Uighurs were among those arrested &#8211; the number was not confirmed &#8211; on suspicion of &#8220;aiding and abetting&#8221; the gunman, Anadolu reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Uighurs are a Muslim, Turkic-speaking minority in western China, with diaspora communities across central Asia and Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>At least 36 people were already in custody over suspected links to the attack, many of whom were picked up in an earlier police operation in Izmir, western Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Several families had recently travelled there from Konya, a central city where the main suspect was said to have stayed for several weeks before the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey has arrested a number of people of Uighur origin over a deadly nightclub attack that killed 39, the state-run news agency reports. Those detained are believed to have come from China&#8217;s Xinjiang region with ties to the attacker, Anadolu says. Deputy PM Veysi Kaynak also said they were closing in on the gunman, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}