Turkish authorities say suspect in attacks against Armenian women is ethnic Armenian

Turkey's police have arrested a person suspected in the attacks against ethnic Armenian women in Istanbul.

According to Turkish media, the man is an ethnic Armenian citizen of Turkey – he is reportedly a resident of Istanbul's Fatih district named Murat N., 40.

Murat N. is suspected of committing five attacks, of which one was deadly. On December 28 an ethnic Armenian woman was stabbed to death in her house in Istanbul's Samatya district. Originally, some ethnic motives were suspected behind the series of attacks.

The Turkish Hurriyet cited an unnamed source as confirming that the man attacked people for robbery purposes. This information has neither been confirmed nor refuted by the police.  Read more... (120 words)

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