TWITTER Police at the scene of the Istanbul restaurant shooting

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Initial reports suggest several people have been wounded in the attack in the city’s Fatih district. The incident comes just days after 39 people were shot dead by a lone gunman in a New Year’s Eve massacre at a popular Istanbul nightclub. Turkey remains on high alert after the New Year's Eve attack at teh Reina club in Istanbul's well-to-do Ortakoy district on the banks of the Bosphorus.

The shooting came at the end of bloody year in which Turkey was shaken by a series of attacks by radical Islamist and Kurdish militants and by a failed coup. Parliament voted overnight to extend emergency rule, first imposed after the attempted coup, by another three months, enabling the government to enact new laws and limit or suspend rights and freedoms when deemed necessary. President Tayyip Erdogan said the attack, which targeted a club popular with local celebrities and wealthy foreign visitors, was being exploited to try to divide the largely Sunni Muslim nation and that the state never meddled in how people lived.

TWITTER Scene of Istanbul restaurant shooting

Turkey mourns after Istanbul nightclub attack Tue, January 3, 2017 Turkey mourns after a New Year's Day mass shooting at a packed Istanbul nightclub killed 39 people. Play slideshow AFP/Getty Images 1 of 13 Relatives of Ayhan Arik, one of the victims of the Reina night club attack mourn during his funeral ceremony on January 1, 2017 in Istanbul.