Istanbul: Police arrest suspect after fatal attack in church. Now connections to the “Islamic State’ are being examined.
Two masked men entered the Santa Maria Catholic Church in Istanbul's Sariyer district during church services on Sunday and killed a man. According to media reports, the victim was 52 years old. The perpetrators initially managed to escape. More than 99 percent of the people in Turkey are Muslim. More. than 180,000 Christians live in the country. According to the state news agency Anadolu, more than 180,.000 Christians living in Turkey.