Man with a knife shot outside Israel embassy in Turkey

Turkey: A 41-year old armed man has been shot and wounded by Turkish police outside the Israeli embassy in Ankara after he shouted slogan on Wednesday said an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman and Turkish police but initial investigations indicated he had no links to an organized terror group.

The Ankara governor's office in a statement said; the man from the central city of Konya, was carrying a bag and wielding a 30-cm knife as he approached the embassy.
The statement added that the armed man was shot in the leg after ignoring a warning from police, and that he did not appear to be linked to a group.

"According to initial examinations... (the man) appears mentally unstable, no criminal record or organizational links have been found."

According to a police official who spoke with Reuters, the man shouted "Allahu akbar" ("God is greatest") outside the embassy before he was shot.

 

A Reuters photographer at the scene of the incident said police were examining his bag but had not tried to detonate it, adding that the area outside the embassy was only briefly cordoned off.

An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a text message that;

"The staff is safe. The attacker was wounded before he reached the embassy," adding that the man was apprehended at the outer perimeter of the secured zone around the embassy.