It’s a video that most viewers find difficult to watch. But terror experts want the video spread — because the more people see it, the better chance this bloody Islamic terrorist is caught before he can strike again.
Turkish state media aired new footage on Tuesday of a man believed to be the gunman who killed 39 people at a nightclub, showing a grim selfie video of the suspect as he circles Istanbul’s most famous square.
The camera never leaves the man’s unsmiling face as he walks through Taksim square, one of Istanbul’s prime tourist spots, during the 44-second video broadcast on state-run Anadolu television and other media.
It wasn’t immediately clear if it was filmed before or after the New Year’s massacre at the Reina nightclub, or how the footage was obtained. The gunman, who hasn’t been publicly identified, is still at large.
The Islamic State group claimed the attack on Monday, saying a “soldier of the caliphate” had carried out the mass shooting to avenge Turkish military operations against ISIS in northern Syria.
Layan Nasser, an 18-year-old Arab Israeli dental assistant who had traveled to Istanbul to celebrate the New Year with friends, was among the dead. Thousands attended the teen’s funeral on Tuesday in the Israeli city of Tira.
“She had dreams to work, to progress, to study, to raise a family, but unfortunately the terror put an end to her dreams,” Tira mayor Mamoun Abd El Hai said.
At least 14 people have been detained in connection with the attack. Two foreigners were detained at Ataturk airport’s international terminal on Tuesday after police checked their cellphones and luggage, according to Anadolu.
Hurriyet newspaper said that a woman identified by Turkish media as the wife of the massacre suspect has told police she didn’t know her husband was an ISIS member.
The woman was detained in the central town of Konya as part of the investigation. Neither she nor her husband has been identified by name. Hurriyet said on its online edition Tuesday that the woman said she learned about the attack on television and told police she didn’t know her husband harbored “sympathies toward” ISIS.
Media reports say the gunman flew to Istanbul from Kyrgyzstan with his wife and children on Nov. 20. From there, they drove to the Turkish capital, Ankara, before arriving in Konya on Nov. 22.
The family rented a studio in Konya, paying three months of rent upfront. The gunman told the real estate agent he had arrived in Konya in search of work, according to the report.
Hurriyet said the gunman returned to Istanbul Dec. 29.
Several media outlets on Monday, citing unnamed security sources, said the man was believed to be from Central Asia and may have been part of the cell that staged a June attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport that killed 45 people.
Haber Turk newspaper on Tuesday said the man is thought to be a member of China’s Muslim Uighur minority. A Kyrgyz passport circulated on Turkish media but police said it did not belong to the gunman.
The nightclub assailant, armed with a long-barreled weapon, killed a policeman and a civilian in the early hours of 2017 outside the club before opening fire on the estimated 600 people inside. The establishment is frequented by famous locals, including singers, actors and athletes. Most of the dead on Sunday were foreign tourists.
Turkey has been rocked by violence in the past year, carried out by ISIS as well as by Kurdish militants. The government survived a failed coup over the summer and is fighting against Kurdish insurgents. Parliament votes Tuesday on whether to extend the state of emergency declared after the coup attempt.
The country launched an offensive to northern Syria in August in hopes of clearing a strategic border area of ISIS militants and stemming the gains of Kurdish fighters. Turkish jets regularly bomb ISIS targets in the Syrian town of al-Bab in support of Syrian opposition forces try to re-capture it from the extremists.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
Looks an awful lot like someone O’bozo the “Big Eared” Clown would enjoy having a beer with.
AMEN!
Sure looks like a NObummer relative, if I’ see this guy, I’ got a 9mm. dipped in pigs blood, called a virgin eliminator.
Fricking cowards//// If they want to avenge a military attack then why not attack the military???
You are the real coward……
Fighting a war with other peoples money and other peoples blood… with no risk to yourself.
The people who died in that nightclub… deserved it. It was their tax dollars and their governments that invaded the ISIS countries and started killing them and their families.
People are so sanctimonious. We in the West love to invade other peoples countries and kill them, but when they fight back we call them terrorists. We are the REAL TERRORISTS.
So you approve of crucifying small children, burning innocent people alive in cages, and raping mutilating and girls and women?
You should be put on the “Possible Terrorist List.”
In fact, I think I’ll send a message to Trump’s people and suggest that they check out your message – hackers expose government information; I’m sure they can find out who you are.
I have to agree with you there, nip it in the bud before individuals like this do become full pledged terrorist.
Looks like he is using a fake name, he is defenantly an ISIS sympetiser.
Looks like he is using a fake name, he is defenantly an ISIS sympetiser.
Because they are cowards!
You are a misinformed Idiot!
You are one stupid SONOFABITCH to think that you can just walk around, killing innocent people who had nothing to do with your kind being killed !! You think you can walk around killing anyone you want ! You are definatly using a sick satanic brain that must be destroyed !! You must know that you will be caught and destroyed for doing this evil act !! You,will not get that pile of virgins that you think will be waiting for you !! You will receive something alright but it won’t be young virgin pussy, it is most likely you will suffer the the depths of HELL and the SATAN that is waiting for your EVIL ass !! May you and your evil kind be sent to the deepest part of HELL where you will be chastised by your friend SATAN !!! ROT IN HELL YOU PIECE OF GOAT SHEET !!! Eat BACAN, IT ‘ S DELICIOUS !!!!
The first attack made and claimed on U.S. citizens or on our soil should have been the end of the entire ISIS organization and anyone representing them. You frigging Liberals are brainless. If that was your daughter that was killed you would cry for help then. These Islamic terrorist try to justify genocide with religion the world is a better place without them.
Oh! Boy! Who pooped in your Wheaties today?
Fuck you !!!
Joe Berger – YOU are the real cowardly terrorist … one I’d love to meet to show you just how cowardly “we” are.
OBVIOUSLY YOU FEEL QUITE STRONGLY ABOUT WE “TERRORISTS” HERE IN OUR BELOVED COUNTRY. WHY DON’T YOU GO WHERE YOU WILL FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE? GUESS WHERE THAT MIGHT BE; Afghanistan maybe? Preach your message to the NON-TERRORISTS there (in between their gun shots and bombings of their own people!)
Spoken like a true marxist drone hater of america. You progressive are hanging yourselfs, soon it might be literal. Y’all idiots are playing with fire your sure to get burned. Your totally ignorant and have no clue as to what you speak
Stick a plug in it!
because they are cowards!
They attack defencless people, they are EVIL, an lead by Satan. They will pay in HELL for their actions.
Kinda looks like a Neanderthal! Anyone surprised. Filth and Scum!
I know this will be hard to swallow but the governments of the world fund terrorists. The shadow government keeps race and terrorists on the payroll to keep the pot stirred. The money Obamma gave (150 billion) to iran is to fund terrorists. What they want in eventually is for the American people to throw there hands up and give up there rights and everything else they own to protect them.
It’s sounds just like Obama to do something underhanded like that. He a traitor to the American people. He should have been impeached and tried for treason along time ago. We the American people should lock him in prison and throw away the key.
Obama is very likely not a U.S. citizen (thus the sealed records), and if he is not, then he cannot commit treason (in other words, betray) the U.S.
If he isn’t a citizen, we would probably have to get him on espionage.
Unfortunately, there is more truth in your statement than we like to believe. I know our government has been involved in all sorts of dirty deals. (And we keep electing the same worthless bleeps over and over.)
Ron M, There is a lot of money in weaponry. The arms makers of the world are in their glory making and distributing these weapons to the highest bidders. The US weapon manufacturers is not excluded from these companies. They could care less about loss of lives around the world from the weapons sold to these thugs,, Greed ( Money) and power is the driving force behind their reason for producing the weaponry.
tragic loss of life … everywhere.
So much needless suffering.
I can understand why someone would see it as “tragic loss of life,” but that is letting the monsters off lightly.
How about “brutal massacres and genocides” instead?
And “So much suffering that so many monster enjoy inflicting.”
We started it.
Was no war until we invaded their country and destroyed it.
I ‘ve discovered the enemy… AND THEY ARE US.
There have always been wars in the Middle East, ever since STUPID Abraham couldn’t keep it in his pants and had sex with his slut-servant, creating the petulant and jealous Ishmael, the start of the Arab population.
Following in Ishmael’s path, the monsters have done little BUT destroy ever since, seemingly having people who do nothing but invent ever more heinous ways of killing even small children and women.
I spent eleven years in Saudi Arabia and my family has over a hundred years there. I’m calling you out for your coziness with the 700 AD Arabs-Muslims.
Read your Bible, and understand it, my dear Jeanette. It was Sarah , Abraham’s wife who initiated the idea that Abraham should go to Hagar, Sarah’s handmaid, because Sarah lacked faith and trust in God. So Ishmael was born, while Sarah became pregnant, and bore Isaac, who beget Jacob, renamed Israel. Lesson? We should all listen and have faith in God’s Will.. All these wars, are a result of man’s disobedience to a Merciful and Loving God, yet also Just and Fair in His judgments.
Loving God. And of course, Satan always takes advantage of man’s weakness and lack of faith.
That “US” must include you, buddy! I think what you really mean to say is: It’s NOT the people in this nation, but it is the govt of this country! the ones that are trying to take over and get all the wealth for themselves! Sound about right? If not, don’t make me a part of the “US” you speak of, OK. Thanks
Stfu
“Us” sounds like a lot of people. Speak for yourself asshole.
The enemy is many … you and your muslime friends for one … leftists, for another, which you may well be.
The muzzies have been killing each other for millennia, it didn’t start with us attacking them. They’ve been attacking just about every people across the planet since the BC’s. They were attacking us back at the turn of the 18th century … war of 1812 anyone? We whooped their a$$es then, as we should now.
If they discover that this man is a Uighur. He is not helping their cause to separate themselves from Chinese subjugation. The Chinese have not created any havoc through terrorism but if his identity and nationality are verified, then the Uighurs will be considered a terrorist group. Who do you think the West is going to trust? The Chinese have been calling the Uighurs terrorists and I would have to agree with the Chinese one the man’s investigation are confirmed.
@ joe berger Actually, the war started on September 11, 2001. Before that date, Islam was just an exotic religion on the other side of the world, and 99% of Americans were totally ignorant of this totalitarian ideology. Some people still think 9/11 was the fault of U.S. foreign policy. If this is true, then I have a moral and legal right to go into another country and kill thousands of innocents if that country’s government’s foreign policy offends me and my friends.
Hopefully this demon will be found. If found guilty in court hopefully he will receive the death penalty. The sooner this evil man gets to the lake of fire the better the world will be.
Seal our borders and severely vet those who are here, then let the deporting begin. Build that wall President Trump!
I could be hired to pull their nails out with a pair of vise grips after they are caught…. Next… the teeth…. : )
What an UGLY Pathetic little man.
Soon he’ll be a rotting corpse as he will be caught and gunned down!
Wish I could have the pleasure in filling him full of holes!
what a stupid video! that’s supposed to be the Istanbul night club massacre?