{"id":55808,"date":"2026-04-07T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/55808\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:00:06","slug":"gunmen-open-fire-near-israeli-consulate-building-in-istanbul-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/55808\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen open fire near Israeli consulate building in Istanbul \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul Governor Davut G\u00fcl <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trthaber.com\/haber\/gundem\/israil-konsoloslugu-yakininda-catisma-940726.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">described<\/a> the incident as \u201ca move that smells of provocation,\u201d noting that the Israeli mission has had no active diplomatic presence in the city following the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been no activity at the consulate for 2.5 years,\u201d he said, adding that investigators are examining possible connections and motives.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TC_icisleri\/status\/2041471302813241635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">attack<\/a> unfolded in the Be\u015fikta\u015f district outside the Yap\u0131 Kredi Plaza complex, where security forces were stationed on duty near the consulate at the time. Two police officers also reported minor injuries, according to the interior ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s Minister of Justice Ak\u0131n G\u00fcrlek said three prosecutors have been assigned to lead an investigation into the attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Istanbul Governor Davut G\u00fcl described the incident as \u201ca move that smells of provocation,\u201d noting that the Israeli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[21967,37,690,443,545,1176,51,36],"class_list":["post-55808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-eu-turkey","tag-israel","tag-missions","tag-security","tag-terrorism","tag-turkey","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116363789817073862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}