Funeral held for nightclub attack victim

Record ID: 162907

  • Title: Funeral held for nightclub attack victim
  • Date: 2nd January 2017
  • Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (JANUARY 2, 2017) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** EXTERIORS OF THE MOSQUE VARIOUS OF PEOPLE GATHERING AT MOSQUE FOR FUNERAL CEREMONY FOR AHMET GORMEK, VICTIM OF GUN ATTACK VARIOUS OF RELATIVES MOURNING AND STANDING BY THE COFFIN WOMAN AND MAN WEEPING BOY PUTTING HIS HEAD DOWN ON COFFIN VARIOUS OF FAMILY MEMBERS STANDING BY THE COFFIN VARIOUS OF A WOMAN WEEPING IMAM STANDING BY THE COFFIN, LEADING PRAYERS MEN SAYING: "AMEN" VARIOUS OF IMAM PRAYING MEN PRAYING VARIOUS OF COFFIN BEING CARRIED ON SHOULDERS WOMEN WEEPING MORE OF COFFIN BEING CARRIED ON SHOULDERS THROUGH CROWD MORE OF WOMAN CRYING
  • Embargoed: 17th January 2017 14:46
  • Keywords: Turkey attack gunfire. wounded casualties nightclub gun attack Reina club gunman funeral victims
  • Location: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
  • City: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA0015XE0PQF
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Funeral ceremony for one of 39 victims of the New Year's Day mass shooting in a nightclub in Istanbul was held on Monday (January 2).
    Ahmet Gorak was working as a waiter at Reina Club, a hang-out for the Turkish jet set and moneyed foreigners, on Sunday (January 1) when a gunman opened fire on New Year revelers at the club on the shores of Istanbul's Bosphorus waterway.
    Around 600 people were thought to be inside when the lone gunman, still at large, shot dead a police officer and a civilian at the door before walking in and opening fire at random.
    Witnesses said he shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest). Islamic State claimed responsibility saying it was revenge for Turkish military involvement in Syria.
    Islamic State declaration on Monday described the nightclub as a gathering point for Christians celebrating their "apostate holiday".
    Victims of the attack included many foreigners, among them an Indian Bollywood film producer, a Lebanese fitness trainer and a Jordanian bar owner.
    According to a forensics report quoted by the Milliyet newspaper, some of the victims were shot at very close distance or even at point-blank range.
    The incident bore echoes of an attack by militant Islamists on Paris's Bataclan music hall in November 2015 that, along with assaults on bars and restaurants, killed 130 people.
    Istanbul's attack came five months after a failed military coup, in which more than 240 people were killed, many of them in Istanbul, as rogue soldiers commandeered tanks and fighter jets in a bid to seize power.
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