Police have shot and detained a knife-carrying Turkish man who tried to force his way into the Israeli embassy in Turkey’s capital Ankara.
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Nahshon said that all Israeli Embassy staff is safe.
The governor’s office identified the assailant as Osman Nuri Caliskan and said he was born in 1975, in the central Turkish province of Konya. The guard shot the assailant in the leg, according to CNN Turk. There were no details on the nationality or motivation of the suspected attackers. An Israeli embassy spokesperson said it was not clear if the attack was targeting the embassy or police officers.
Employees of the embassy took refuge in a shelter.
Large numbers of police vehicles were dispatched to the scene and the road closed on which the building is located, an AFP correspondent said.
Turkish media earlier reported that the man had been killed, but then later said he was “neutralised and injured”.
Turkey has been caught up in a series of deadly attacks in the past year by the Islamic State group and Kurdish militants.
Israel and Turkey recently reconciled after a six-year rift in ties that were ruptured over the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident.
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Last month, police detained five people who tried to break into Israel’s consulate in Istanbul to protest Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.
