{"id":62188,"date":"2026-04-07T19:57:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=62188"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:57:38","slug":"firing-near-israel-consulate-in-istanbul-turkish-police-shoots-down-3-armed-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/firing-near-israel-consulate-in-istanbul-turkish-police-shoots-down-3-armed-persons\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRING NEAR ISRAEL CONSULATE IN ISTANBUL | TURKISH POLICE SHOOTS DOWN 3 ARMED PERSONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"lead text-justify\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62190\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Israel-Turkiye-Consulate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Israel-Turkiye-Consulate.jpg 700w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Israel-Turkiye-Consulate-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Israel-Turkiye-Consulate-696x424.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Israel-Turkiye-Consulate-690x420.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>Middle East Monitoring Desk Islamabad <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"lead text-justify\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Three people have been killed and two police officers injured in a gunfire incident \u2060near the building housing the Israeli consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul, according to Turkey\u2019s media reports.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<div class=\"story\" data-readmoretitle=\"Read more\">\n<p>A Reuters news agency video showed a police officer pulling out a gun and taking cover as gunshots resounded. One person \u2060was seen covered in \u2060blood.<\/p>\n<p>According to Al Jazeera, three people were involved in the gunfire but have been \u201celiminated\u201d by Turkish police.<\/p>\n<p>The area where the consulate building is located, meanwhile, is densely populated and houses many businesses, including international ones, with \u201cthousands\u201d of people working nearby.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli consulate is on the seventh floor of one tall building in the area.<\/p>\n<p>There are no Israeli diplomats serving in the consulate building in Istanbul, and no Israeli diplomats in the Israeli embassy in the Turkish capital of Ankara, \u201cwhich means the employees who are inside those diplomatic missions are mostly the locals who are working for the consulate or embassy\u201d, Al Jazeera\u2019s correspondent said.<\/p>\n<p>There were no details yet on the identity or motives of the attackers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East Monitoring Desk Islamabad Three people have been killed and two police officers injured in a gunfire incident \u2060near the building housing the Israeli consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul, according to Turkey\u2019s media reports. A Reuters news agency video showed a police officer pulling out a gun and taking cover as gunshots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[56,633,2895,285,1181,2589],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62191,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62188\/revisions\/62191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}