He was identified as 28-year-old Iakhe Mashrapov, with a Kyrgyz passport, the alleged New Year's Eve killer in Istanbul. This was reported by the Turkish state TV Trt. His passport appears to have been issued by the former Soviet republic of Central Asia on 21 October, a month before his arrival in Turkey. The interested party denies all the allegations.
Meanwhile, the wife of the alleged perpetrator of the Istanbul massacre has been arrested. The woman, according to the Haberturk newspaper, was stopped in the conservative Anatolian province of Konya, where the killer also arrived with her two children at the end of November from Kyrgyzstan. The sources cited by the newspaper also confirm that you are an Uyghur, originally from the Chinese region of Xinjiang.
“I learned about the attack from TV. I didn't know my husband was a Daesh sympathizer” (Isis), the woman would have said. In addition to her, other family members were allegedly arrested: "The police know the identity of the bomber and her family has been arrested," Hurriyet announced.
Also according to the Turkish newspaper, the alleged perpetrator of the massacre fought in Syria for ISIS using techniques learned during the civil war. Hurriyet added that the man was shown to be well trained in the use of weapons and street fighting in residential areas in Syria and used these techniques during the carnage in the nightclub.
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Ihake Mashrapov, the 28-year-old Kyrgyz accused yesterday of being responsible for the deaths of 39 people in the New Year's attack, has been cleared. Mashrapov explained to the Kyrgyz authorities, as well as to the Turkish police, that he had nothing to do with the attack, demonstrating from the stamps in his passport that he was not in Istanbul on New Year's Eve.
