Esenyurt

Police in Turkey have detained the suspect in the attack on a nightclub in Istanbul which left 39 people dead, Turkish media report.

Abdulkadir Masharipov, an Uzbek national, was detained in the city's Esenyurt district.

He was found with his son at the home of a Kyrgyz friend.

Police seized 358 kilograms of heroin, allegedly brought from Iran and worth approximately 9 million Turkish Liras, from a flat in Istanbul's Esenyurt district on April 27.

A police officer reported a “demonstration” on a main road in Istanbul's Esenyurt district after assuming that a man standing outside his car for the one minute of silence in commemoration of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s death was staging a protest.