{"id":43892,"date":"2026-04-07T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=43892"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:39:07","slug":"gunman-killed-two-wounded-after-they-open-fire-near-israeli-consulate-in-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=43892","title":{"rendered":"Gunman Killed, Two Wounded After They Open Fire Near Israeli Consulate in Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Turkish police killed one gunman and injured two others in a firefight outside Israel\u2019s consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday morning with two security officers also left severely wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple reports detail events that took place during the brazen daylight attack with video shared\u00a0showing a police officer pulling out a gun and taking cover as gunshots rang out.<\/p>\n<p>One person \u2060was seen covered in \u2060blood.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2041450947335897417\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cumhuriyetgzt\/status\/2041450947335897417\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The consulate is located in Istanbul\u2019s Besiktas District and has been closed for at least two years and is likely unstaffed, a member of the local community <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-892312#google_vignette\">informed<\/a> the <em>Jerusalem Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/c3dzpylmnjgt\">reports<\/a> the attackers have been identified, according to Turkey\u2019s interior minister \u2013 he says one suspect has \u201cties to an organisation that exploits religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">The Israeli foreign ministry says it is examining reports of the shooting and confirms the consulate was not staffed at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>The consulate is in the north of Istanbul, Turkey\u2019s largest city, and comes amid heightened tensions around the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, the BBC report notes.<\/p>\n<p><em>More to come\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<h5><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2026\/04\/07\/video-three-killed-after-gunmen-open-fire-near-israeli-consulate-in-istanbul\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish police killed one gunman and injured two others in a firefight outside Israel\u2019s consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday morning with two security officers also left&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}