Istanbul attack: Dozens killed at nightclub edition.cnn.com

An armed attacker at an Istanbul nightclub killed 35 people and wounded 40 early Sunday as they celebrated the new year, Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin said. At least 39 people were killed and at least 69 wounded in an attack in a nightclub early Sunday as they were celebrating the new year, Turkey's Interior Minister said.

"We are face to face with a terror attack," Interior minister Suleyman Soylu told reporters.
Twenty-one of the dead have been identified, he said. Of those, 16 were foreign nationals and five were Turkish.