Two Chinese nationals of Uyghur origin were arrested on Friday for suspected links to the mass shooting in an Istanbul night club on New Year’s Eve, state-run Anadolu agency said.
Two suspects, Omar Asim and Abuliezi Abuduhamiti, who are Chinese citizens, were remanded in custody on charges of being members of an armed terrorist organisation, and aiding in 39 counts of murder.
Turkish authorities on January 5 said the man who killed 39 people in an attack on an Istanbul nightclub was probably an ethnic Uyghur.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was revenge for Turkish military involvement in Syria.
Anadolu news agency also said 35 people had been detained so far in relation to the attack. Uighurs were among those detained, local media reports said.
The Uyghurs are a largely Muslim, Turkic-speaking minority in far western China with significant diaspora communities across Central Asia and Turkey.
The suspect, who authorities have not named, shot his way into exclusive Istanbul nightclub Reina and opened fire with an automatic rifle, throwing stun grenades to allow himself to reload and shooting the wounded on the ground.
Among those killed in the attack were Turks and visitors from several Arab nations, India and Canada.
Turkey reaping what it sows, with their fake faraway mythological support culminating in their training financing arming Uyghurs as mercs for nearby conflicts, with the potential they’ll later bring terrorism to china, has instead seen them blowback in their own face.
True
But but these Uighers are not terrorists but freedom fighters!
Turkey logic:
With my support, with my state sponsored fake Turkish passport.
Uyghurs killing woman and children in China = Not terrorist act
Uyghurs killing woman and children in Syria = Not terrorist act
But
Uyghurs killing woman and children in Turkey = Terrorist act
Blowback is a bitch isn’t it.