{"id":28817,"date":"2016-09-22T04:13:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T04:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/turkey-knife-attacker-shot-in-front-of-israeli\/"},"modified":"2016-09-22T04:13:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T04:13:01","slug":"turkey-knife-attacker-shot-in-front-of-israeli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/turkey-knife-attacker-shot-in-front-of-israeli\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey: Knife attacker shot in front of Israeli embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Attacker “appeared to be mentally disturbed” and has no links with organised groups, according to Ankara officials.}<\/p>\n

Police have shot and detained a knife-carrying Turkish man who tried to force his way into the Israeli embassy in Turkey’s capital Ankara.<\/p>\n

The man, armed with a 30cm knife, ran towards the embassy shouting slogans and was shot in the leg, the governor’s office in Ankara said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Officials said initial investigations showed that the man, identified as 41-year-old Osman Nuri Caliskan from the central Anatolian city of Konya, “appeared to be mentally disturbed” and had no record of links with any organised group.<\/p>\n

“A man approached the embassy with a knife and was shot by a local guard. Everyone on our side is safe,” Emmanuel Nahshon, spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“The assailant was wounded in the foot. We don’t know if he was attacking police officers or the embassy itself.”<\/p>\n

He added that the assailant only managed to reach the “outer perimeter” of the building, but said the incident was still being investigated.<\/p>\n

Israel’s embassy in Ankara said in a statement that the suspect “tried to stab a Turkish police officer” in front of the mission.<\/p>\n

“The embassy trusts the Turkish forces to control and investigate the incident,” it added.<\/p>\n

Turkey’s NTV television said employees of the embassy took refuge in a shelter during the incident.<\/p>\n

Caliskan was taken to Ankara\u2019s Numune Training and Research Hospital, according to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n

Roads around the embassy were closed after the incident and specialist police officers were sent to the scene.<\/p>\n

The Hurriyet daily reported that the attacker told police officers interrogating him at the hospital that he “did this to stop the bloodshed in the Middle East”.<\/p>\n

Foreign missions in Turkey have been on a state of high alert following a spate of attacks across the country this year blamed on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Kurdish separatist groups.<\/p>\n

The British embassy in Ankara was closed on Friday over security concerns.<\/p>\n

Three months ago, Turkey and Israel signed a deal to restore their ties which hit an all-time low after the 2010 raid by Israeli commandos on a Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship that left 10 Turks dead.<\/p>\n

Under the deal, the two countries are to begin the process of exchanging ambassadors to fully restore their diplomatic ties, although this has yet to formally take place.<\/p>\n

\"At<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{Attacker “appeared to be mentally disturbed” and has no links with organised groups, according to Ankara officials.} Police have shot and detained a knife-carrying Turkish man who tried to force his way into the Israeli embassy in Turkey’s capital Ankara. The man, armed with a 30cm knife, ran towards the embassy shouting slogans and was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-28817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28817"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28817"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}