Türkiye
Attack on church in Istanbul – police arrest suspects
A man is killed in an attack on a Catholic church in Istanbul. Now the police have caught two suspects.
Two masked men entered the Santa Maria Catholic Church in the Sariyer district during the morning service and killed a man. According to media reports, the victim was 52 years old. The perpetrators initially managed to escape. Interior Minister Yerlikaya said raids were carried out at 30 addresses and a total of 47 people were arrested in the course of the investigation.
More than 99 percent of the people in Turkey are Muslim. According to the state news agency Anadolu, more than 180,000 Christians live in the country.