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The mass shooting in a night club in Istanbul on New Year's Eve was carried out in a professional manner, with the participation of an intelligence organisation, stated on Monday Turkey's Deputy PM Numan Kurtulmuş, cited by Reuters.

The mass shooting at an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Eve was carried out professionally with the involvement of an intelligence organization, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said Jan. 16.

A Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker was temporarily suspended from the Turkish parliament on Jan. 13 for using the word "genocide" in reference to the World War I mass killings of Ottoman Armenians in 1915, during heated discussions on changes to the constitution.

An Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant who attacked a famous nightclub at the heart of Istanbul escaped with his son after the attack, according to police sources. 

A man who kicked an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant during an attack in the famous Istanbul nightclub Reina at New Year's has said he would have killed the attacker if he knew the militant was alone. 

Turkish police have identified an alleged Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant who attacked a famous nightclub in Istanbul as Uzbek national Abdulkadir Masharipov.

The attacker arrived in Istanbul from the Central Anatolian province of Konya on Dec. 15, 2016, to stage the attack on Jan. 1. 

For the last two days, Turkey has been talking about the heroic move by Fethi Sekin, a police officer who prevented a disaster from happening in the western city of İzmir on Jan. 5.

The terrible massacre by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on a nightclub in Ortaköy last week has triggered Turkey's most traditional debate on "secular versus conservative" lifestyles. 

The key figures related to an attack on a famous nightclub in Istanbul's Ortaköy just after midnight on New Year's Day are in the western province of İzmir, authorities have alleged.

Jordanian authorities are planning to prosecute 12 Jordanians on suspicion of hate speech aimed at victims of the New Year's nightclub shooting attack in Istanbul, Jordanian state media has reported. 

Two Jordanians were among the 39 people killed in the shooting, which the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had claimed responsibility for.