{"id":14808,"date":"2024-01-30T00:50:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T00:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/30\/lone-victim-of-isis-claimed-istanbul-church-shooting-was-a-muslim-says-local-official\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T00:50:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T00:50:12","slug":"lone-victim-of-isis-claimed-istanbul-church-shooting-was-a-muslim-says-local-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/30\/lone-victim-of-isis-claimed-istanbul-church-shooting-was-a-muslim-says-local-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Lone victim of ISIS-claimed Istanbul church shooting was a Muslim, says local official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The lone victim of Sunday\u2019s ISIS-claimed shooting at the Santa Maria Catholic Church in Istanbul was a Muslim, according to a local official.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Sukru Genc, mayor of the Sariyer district where the church is located, told Turkish independent newspaper BirG\u00fcn that the man was by the entrance to the church at the time of the attack, which saw two masked gunmen open fire during Sunday service.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cDuring the attack, a citizen from Bayburt at the entrance, a Muslim citizen, lost his life,\u201d said the mayor. Turkey\u2019s interior minister Ali Yerlikaya identified the man as Tuncer Murat Cihan in a post on X.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cAccording to the priest, he was constantly going to church and the priest knew this person and referred to him as \u2018a good person,\u2019\u201d added Genc.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The priest who was leading mass at the time said one of the attackers\u2019 guns had jammed, according to Genc.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cWhen the first gun went off, everyone threw themselves on the ground. After the second explosion, the gun jammed and they [the attackers] came out. It is unknown what would happen next, whether the attack would continue,\u2019\u201d Genc told BirG\u00fcn.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Genc said around 35 to 40 people were inside the church at the time, including the Polish Consul General in Istanbul, Witold Lesniak, who was there with his children.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cNothing happened to them because they were in the front, but their children and everyone at the service were seriously affected,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s office posted a video on X, showing part of his call with Lesniak.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cI would be grateful if you would convey my condolences to the entire community,\u201d Erdogan says in the video.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The man was the only person to die in the attack. There were no further injuries, according to Istanbul Governor Davut Gul.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      ISIS\u00a0has claimed responsibility for a shooting, according to a statement from the\u00a0ISIS-affiliated\u00a0Amaq news agency, citing a security source from the terror group.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      At least 47 suspects have been arrested, according to\u00a0Turkish state news\u00a0agency Anadalou, citing Yerlikaya.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Two of the arrested suspects are believed to be affiliated with\u00a0ISIS, reports Anadalou, which reports that one is from Tajikistan and the other is from Russia, citing Yerlikaya.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The attack appears to be the first\u00a0ISIS\u00a0attack in Turkey since 2017, when 39 people were killed at a nightclub on New Year\u2019s Eve.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lone victim of Sunday\u2019s ISIS-claimed shooting at the Santa Maria Catholic Church in Istanbul was a Muslim, according to a local official. Sukru Genc, mayor of the Sariyer district where the church is located, told Turkish independent newspaper BirG\u00fcn that the man was by the entrance to the church at the time of the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}