A gunman was killed, and two were injured in a shootout near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul.
Two policemen were “slightly injured” in the gunfight, Turkish Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci said.
Ciftci said the attackers had come to Istanbul from the city of Izmit by rental car and that two of them were brothers.
In a statement on X, the interior ministry named the gunman killed as Yunus E.S., who it said was “connected to the terrorist organisation that exploits religion”.
That is understood to be a reference to the Islamic State group, though no group has said it was behind the attack.
Police were initially quoted as saying two attackers had died, but local governor Davut Gul later clarified that only one had been killed.
The two injured attackers were named as Onur Ç and Enes Ç, who the interior ministry said were brothers.
The two police officers injured in the shooting were not in life-threatening condition, the ministry’s statement added, with one shot in the leg and the other in the ear.
Unverified videos circulating online showed several police vans and a heavy police presence around the building, which was cordoned off for several hours after the attempted attack.
There are no Israeli diplomats stationed in Turkey at the moment and the consulate has been empty for the past two-and-a-half years, amid deteriorating relations between Ankara and Tel Aviv over the war in Gaza.
