Turkish main opposition party lays wreaths for New Year's attack victims

Record ID: 163117

  • Title: Turkish main opposition party lays wreaths for New Year's attack victims
  • Date: 4th January 2017
  • Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (JANUARY 4, 2017) (REUTERS) POLICE OUTSIDE REINA NIGHTCLUB / TURKISH FLAGS ARMED POLICE OFFICER NIGHTCLUB SIGN VARIOUS OF BANNER READING (Turkish): 'WE WERE ALL SHOT. 39 LIVES LOST. 79 MILLION WOUNDED' DECORATION IN FRONT OF TURKISH FLAG OUTSIDE REINA NIGHTCLUB PEOPLE IN FRONT OF NIGHTCLUB ENTRANCE MAIN OPPOSITION REPUBLICAN PEOPLE'S PARTY (CHP) MEMBERS HOLDING WREATHS OF RED CARNATIONS VARIOUS OF CHP MEMBERS WALKING WITH WREATHS CHP MEMBERS PLACING WREATHS AT MAKESHIFT MEMORIAL VARIOUS OF CHP MEMBERS PRAYING WREATH (SOUNDBITE) (Turkish) MAIN OPPOSITION REPUBLICAN PEOPLE'S PARTY (CHP) CHAIRMAN OF ISTANBUL BRANCH, CEMAL CANPOLAT, SAYING: "I apologise for my country for those who came here to celebrate New Year, for not being able to protect the foreigners who came here. Let me say it once again, as the Republican People's Party, we will never get involved in making politics about people's beliefs or ethnicity and run the country this way." CHP MEMBERS LISTENING CHP MEMBERS PLACING RED CARNATIONS AT MEMORIAL BOSPHORUS BRIDGE VARIOUS OF NIGHTCLUB BUILDING
  • Embargoed: 19th January 2017 10:52
  • Keywords: Istanbul attack Reina gunman shooting CHP opposition tributes victims wreaths
  • Location: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
  • City: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,International/National Security
  • Reuters ID: LVA0015XO0I87
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Members of the Turkish main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) on Wednesday (January 4) placed wreaths at a makeshift memorial outside Reina nightclub in Istanbul, where a gunman killed 39 people on New Year's Day in an attack claimed by Islamic State.
    CHP members also placed single red carnations near photos of the victims and prayed in their memory.
    "I apologise for my country for those who came here to celebrate New Year, for not being able to protect the foreigners who came here. Let me say it once again, as the Republican People's Party, we will never get involved in making politics about people's beliefs or ethnicity and run the country this way," the chairman of the CHP's Istanbul branch, Cemal Canpolat, said.
    The Turkish foreign minister said on Wednesday that the identity of the gunman had been established, but the attacker remains at large.
    Police detained 27 people as part of the attack investigation in the western city of Izmir on Wednesday, including women and children, who had travelled from Konya, the Dogan news agency said.
    The state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday (January 3) that 14 people had been detained over the attack while NTV reported that two foreign nationals had been detained at Istanbul's main airport.
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