Chilling note written in English saying ‘you can take this, I’ll be in the other place’ found with £160,000 cash in Istanbul nightclub gunman’s filthy flat
Police say Abdulkadir Masharipov has admitted carrying out New Year's massacre
THIS is the chilling note uncovered from the hideout of suspected ISIS gunman Abdulkadir Masharipov arrested in a midnight raid over the Istanbul nightclub massacre.
The handwritten letter, found among £160,000-worth of cash, reads: "You can take this... I will be in the other place".
It was discovered in a filthy flat in the Esenyurt district of the Turkish city where Masharipov was detained by Turkish security forces on Monday night.
Around 1,000 cops, detectives and other officers scoured through 7,200 hours of CCTV footage and over 2,000 public tip-offs to find the Uzbek national accused of killing 39 people in the New Year's Eve atrocity.
Four suspected accomplices including three women and one Iraqi man were also arrested at the flat situated just 25 miles from the popular Reina nightclub, scene of the deadly assault.
Police say Masharipov — described as a well-educated terrorist who speaks four languages — has admitted carrying out the massacre since being interrogated.
Written in English and addressed to "Bibi", an Urdu word meaning wife, the desperate note begins: "Do what ever u want..."
It continues: "I will not care anymore and i can't help any one of course i can't help my self...
"But if u want this it's okay but I will be in other place away from her".
It is not clear whether the note, found beside what appears to be a code-breaker, was scrawled by Masharipov or one of the other suspects.
Meanwhile, a notebook also found at the flat featuring handwritten text in several languages appears to be filled with references to "Allah", "glory" and "victory"
Officials are now turning the flat upside down in the hunt for further evidence connecting him to the nightclub massacre and ISIS networks.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters early on Tuesday: "The vile terrorist who attacked the place of entertainment on New Year's Eve and led to the loss of so many lives has been captured.
"What is important is for the suspect to be captured and for the forces behind it to be revealed."
The alleged terror nut, whose year of birth was given as 1983, resisted arrest and was detained in front of his four-year-old son.
Istanbul governor Vasip Sahin said Masharipov received his terror training in Afghanistan before entering Turkey illegally in January 2016.
Dogan news agency published what it said was the first image of the alleged attacker.
It showed a bruised, black-haired man in a grey, bloodied shirt being held by his neck.
The suspected gunman's male Iraqi accomplice and three women from Somalia, Senegal and Egypt were also detained.
His son was taken into protective custody following the police raid.
Earlier, his wife and one-year old daughter were caught in a police operation on January 12.
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Police established his whereabouts last week but delayed the raid so they could monitor his movements and contacts, NTV reported.
The television channel also broadcast footage showing plain-clothed police taking away a man in a white top and sweat pants, forcing his head down.
Police were carrying out raids on other suspected ISIS cells in the city at the same time.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu posted a Twitter message thanking the interior minister, Suleyman Soylu, police and intelligence organisations "who caught the Reina attacker in the name of the people."
Depraved terror group ISIS claimed the attack, in which mostly foreign visitors from the Middle East were slaughtered, was in reprisal for Turkish military operations in northern Syria
The assault took place just 75 minutes into 2017 and also left 69 people in hospital.
At least 600 revellers were celebrating at the popular nightspot in the early hours of New Year’s Day when the attack took place.
The gunman arrived by taxi and produced a Kalashnikov from the boot before shooting dead a policeman and a civilian at the entrance as he stormed the club.
Masharipov, an Uzbek national, is said to have arrived in the Turkish city from the centre of the country on December 15.
Hurriyet reports that an ISIS cell operating in the central region of Konya consists of Uzbeks who provided Masharipov with support.
Uzbek fighters have become deeply embedded in ISIS and have fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan.
They are also said to have secret outposts in some major Russian cities as well as having ties to Muslim extremists in China.
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus has said the nightclub attack had been carried out professionally with the help of an intelligence organisation.
He did not name the organisation suspected of being involved.
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