At least 600 people were celebrating New Year - barely 75 minutes old - when a gunman struck at Istanbul's Reina nightclub, spraying some 180 bullets indiscriminately.
The club is a glitzy venue, known for attracting famous singers, actors and sports stars.
It also attracts a wide range of nationalities.
Among the 39 people killed, the biggest single nationality was Turkish, but some two-thirds of the dead were from abroad.
Lebanon
One of the three Lebanese who lost their lives in the attack, Elias Wardini was a personal trainer. He travelled to Istanbul to celebrate the New Year with his friends.
His last post on Instagram shows him in Istanbul with Rita Chami, 25, who also died in the attack.
India
Abis Rizvi was a 49-year-old Bollywood producer who co-wrote Roar: The Tigers of Sunderbans in 2014. He was working on a second film.
Abis Rizvi
He was one of two Indian fatalities. The other was Khushi Shah, a Mumbai fashion designer in her 20s.
Turkey
Among the Turkish victims was Hatice Koc, who was working as a private security guard deployed specially for the New Year celebrations.
After December's bomb attack on a stadium in Istanbul, which killed 44, she wrote on Facebook: "You were the place I had the pleasure of coming to, the place I looked forward to being deployed to. Now it'll always hurt when I see you."
Hatice Koc
Twenty-two-year-old police officer Burak Yildiz, was shot dead outside the club.
Anadolu news agency reported that his body was being transported for burial in the southern city of Mersin.
Burak Yildiz
Mustafa Sezgin Seymen, 32, travelled to Istanbul to take part in New Year festivities with his fiancee, Sezan Arseven.
She posted a picture of them together on Facebook and wrote: "I lost my other half. I lost my partner, my love."
A friend described him as "generous, lively, a person [that] cannot be described with words".
Local media report that Ayhan Arik, a Turkish travel agent, 47 with two children, was shot dead outside the club.
A relative said: "He was talking to the police officer in front - turns out they were born in the same city. He used to work at a tourism agency, taking tourists on tour."
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Ayhan Arık
Flags in the Belgian town of Houthalen-Helchteren were lowered to half-mast to remember Kerim Akyil, 23.
Originally from Kayseri in Turkey, he managed a restaurant with his dad and had gone to Istanbul for New Year with his girlfriend.
Houthalen-Helchteren mayor Alain Yzermans said he was well known in the town for being a sociable and open person.
Kerim Akyil
Yunus Gormek, also 23, was working at the Reina nightclub at the time of the attack.
A relative wrote on Twitter: "We lost Yunus Gormek, who worked for Reina, in the horrible attack... he was working to pay for his education."
Israel
Leanne Nasser, 18, an Arab-Israeli from the northern town of Tira, is thought to be the youngest victim. She went to Istanbul with several friends.
Israeli officials said her family had tried to persuade her not to go due to recent attacks. One of her friends was wounded in the nightclub attack.
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