(AP/Times of Israel) A senior official working for Istanbul's Sisli district city hall, Deputy Mayor in charge of development, Cemil Candas, died Monday after two gunmen walked into his office and shot him in the head. ;Various reports inaccurately stated that Candas was Jewish. Sisli is home to some of Istanbul's remaining Jews, as well as the Jewish newspaper and the Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center.
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