Islamic State start 2017 with a massacre
Two gunmen reportedly dressed in Santa costumes struck Istanbul’s Reina nightclub on New Year’s Eve, killing at least 35 people and injuring at least another 45, the BBC reported Dec. 31. The attack is all but certainly inspired by or directed by the Islamic State, one of the three strands of terrorism currently threatening Turkey. At the time of this writing, at least one attacker is reportedly still at large, perhaps in the nightclub. Reina is a popular venue on the Bosporus Strait, and as many as 700 patrons were inside it at the time of the attack