The statement said: The Embassy trusts the Turkish forces to control and investigate the incident.
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A statement from the governor’s office on Wednesday also said that according to a preliminary investigation, the man appears to be mentally unstable.
A spokesman for Israel’s Foreign Ministry says that an attacker apparently armed with a knife tried to enter the Israeli Embassy before being shot and slightly wounded.
A police officer posted at the embassy in the Gaziosmanpasa district in the south of Ankara, opened fire, injuring the individual in the leg after he ignored repeated warnings by police to drop his weapon.
The attacker was heard shouting “I will change the Middle East”, and reportedly attempted to attack the embassy’s security personnel before he was shot, Hurriyat Daily news reported.
Large numbers of police vehicles were dispatched to the scene and the road closed on which the building is located, an AFP correspondent said.
“There is no casualty or injury, and the Embassy staff is in peace”, the statement said.
The incident came with foreign missions in Turkey on a state of high alert following a spate of attacks across the country this year blamed on jihadists and Kurdish militants.
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Turkey’s private NTV television and other media reports said the man walked past the embassy building several times, raising suspicion, before trying to enter the building.
