ISIS Claims Responsibility for Istanbul Church Attack That Killed One Person

ISTANBUL—The ISIS terrorist group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul during a Sunday Mass that killed one person. The extremist group said in a statement late Sunday on Aamaq, the media arm of the terrorist group, that it “attacked a gathering of Christian unbelievers during their polytheistic ceremony” inside the Santa Maria Church in the Buyukdere neighborhood in Istanbul. The 52-year-old man who was shot and killed in the attack, Tuncer Cihan, “was … a person who had done nothing wrong. In fact, he wasn’t even Christian, he was Alevi,” the church’s lawyer Avsin Hatipoglu told The Associated Press, adding they would ask authorities to increase security in the area....