Sorry to hear the news BUT Turkish flies to many risk destinations with no regard for personnel security.
Indeed they do, and so do the smaller ones too. And this gives a huge dilemma to the expats working over there. For instance, Antonio Planas, a Spanish pilot for Saga Airlines, was killed while on a nightstop in Kabul back in 2011.
Spanish pilot killed in Taliban attack on Kabul hotel
I am not sure that Turkish management are fully aware of the differences in a Muslim Turk visiting such locations, and an infidel Christian visiting the same place. Being obviously Western/European marks one out as a possible target in many of these backward nations.