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Mistaken Identity?: Kyrgyzstan’s Name Tarnished in Attack on Istanbul Nightclub that Killed 39 � Global Voices

4.1.17

Mistaken Identity?: Kyrgyzstan’s Name Tarnished in Attack on Istanbul Nightclub that Killed 39 � Global Voices: On December 31, 2016, a lone gunman shot 39 people dead in the Reina nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey. On June 28, 2016, gunmen killed 45 people at Istanbul's largest airport Ataturk. On both occasions citizens of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia were implicated by media citing Turkish police or other government sources in the aftermath of the attacks.

In the case of the attack on Reina, claimed by the ISIS group known for its brutal military tactics in parts of Syria and Iraq, a Kyrgyz citizen has already been absolved by both Kyrgyz and Turkish authorities.

But that was not before his name and passport image sped across the internet after Turkish mainstream media identified him as the assailant.

Speaking in an interview with Kyrgyzstan's leading privately owned news agency AKIpress Iakhe Mashrapov said he was “not an extremist and not a terrorist”; rather he was a trader that worked between the largest market in the south of the ex-Soviet country and Istanbul.


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