Istanbul // Nearly half of the 39 people killed in the New Year shooting rampage in Istanbul were from Arab countries, according to officials and local media.
Turkey's state-run Dogan news agency said 35 of the victims had been identified - 24 foreigners and 11 Turks.
The Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul said that Saudis were among the victims, but gave no figures. The Asharq Al Awsat newspaper however quoted a consulate source as saying that five Saudis including two women had died and 11 others were injured. Al Arabiya television also spoke of five dead, but put the number of injured Saudi at nine.
The foreign ministry in Amman said three Jordanians were killed and four injured, the official Petra news agency reported.
The Lebanese foreign ministry announced the death of three Lebanese and said another four were wounded.
"I was saved by my passport which I was carrying right near my heart," one of the injured, Francois Al Asmar, told Lebanese television from his hospital bed.
A spokeman for Iraq's foreign ministry said that three Iraqis died in the attack.
The Tunisian foreign ministry said on its Facebook page that two Tunisians had been killed, with media reports saying the victims were a businessman and his wife.
India's external affairs minister said two nationals were among the dead, naming them as Abis Rizvi, the son of a former MP, and a woman, Khushi Shah, from Gujarat state.
Turkey is a top tourist destination for Israelis, with tens of thousands visiting each year.
Belgium's foreign ministry confirmed a Belgian-Turkish dual national was killed.
Paris said a French-Tunisian dual national woman had died along with her Tunisian husband. It was not immediately known if they were among the dead listed by Tunis. Another three French people were injured, the foreign ministry said.
Three Moroccans were wounded, the state news agency MAP reported, citing the Moroccan embassy in Ankara.
The Israeli foreign ministry said a young Israeli woman, identified in the media as 19-year-old Leann Zaher Nasser, had died, and one of her friends was injured.
* Agence France-Presse and Reuters
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