Security agents arrested the alleged responsible of firing several shots in the air near the aforementioned diplomatic mission, after he put up a prolonged resistance, the Hurriyet Daily News reported.

No casualties were reported during the incident, confirmed the Anadolu agency, which recalls the protests that were staged near the premise last May, after the Israeli air force bombed the city of Rafah, in the Gaza Strip.

On that occasion, more than a hundred people interrupted work at the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, chanting slogans against Tel Aviv’s genocide in Gaza.

The Zionist army’s bombings of Gaza have caused more than 43,750 deaths, the vast majority of them civilians, since October 7, 2023, when the military wing of the Hamas resistance movement launched an operation against 75 years of Israeli occupation.

At least nine Turkish provinces registered student protests against Israel’s excesses against the Palestinian population, all of which led Tel Aviv to withdraw a large part of the personnel from its diplomatic headquarters here.

Recently, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced from a climate change conference in Baku that his country was breaking diplomatic relations with the Israeli government.

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