The “religion of peace” in Muslim Turkey.

At least 35 people were killed and 40 wounded when an attacker opened fire on New Year’s revellers at a nightclub in Istanbul on Sunday, Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin told reporters.

The attacker shot a police officer and a civilian as he entered the club in the Ortakoy district of Istanbul before opening fire inside the building, Sahin said, in what he described as a terrorist attack.

Around 500-600 people were celebrating the New Year, broadcaster NTV said.

Police special forces and explosives experts were still searching the club in the Ortakoy district of Turkey’s most populous city, an NTV correspondent at the scene said. The whereabouts of the attacker were unclear.

Eyewitness Sinem Uyanik told the Associated Press she saw several bodies inside the Istanbul nightclub that was attacked during New Year’s celebrations.

Her husband Lutfu Uyanik was wounded in the attack. “Before I could understand what was happening, my husband fell on top me,” she said outside Istanbul’s Sisli Hospital. “I had to lift several bodies from on top of me before I could get out.”

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