Turkey has arrested a number of people of Uighur origin over a deadly nightclub attack that killed 39, the state-run news agency reports.
Those detained are believed to have come from China’s Xinjiang region with ties to the attacker, Anadolu says. Deputy PM Veysi Kaynak also said they were closing in on the gunman, who he said was possibly an ethnic Uighur.
Police have already detained dozens over the deadly new year attack, but the main suspect remains on the run. So-called ISIS says it carried out the attack over Turkey’s military involvement in the Syrian civil war.