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The Grand Turk

Day 3: Turkey detains 10 suspects over Istanbul gun attack outside Israeli consulate

2026-04-09

The next step after yesterday’s story and the day before.

[IsraelTimes] Turkish media reports that the detained include two attackers who were wounded in the assault and are being questioned in hospital

Ottoman Turkish authorities have detained 10 people in connection with Tuesday’s gun attack near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul as the investigation widened, Ottoman Turkish media reported on Wednesday.

One attacker was killed and two others were maimed in the extended shootout with police outside the tower building in Istanbul’s main financial district that houses the consulate.

Those detained include the two maimed assailants, who are being questioned in hospital as they undergo treatment, state-owned news agency Anadolu reported. The remaining eight suspects were arrested in operations in Istanbul and the nearby province of Kocaeli following the attack, it reported.

The interior ministry declined to comment on the detentions, while Istanbul police and the prosecutor’s office could not immediately be reached for comment.

Authorities have not detailed a motive for the assault, and the investigation is ongoing. US Ambassador to ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
Tom Barrack, in a post on X, called it an attack on the Israeli consulate and condemned it.

Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci has said the three attackers had links to a group that "exploits religion" without specifying further. Two of them were brothers, who had travelled in a rented car from the city of Izmit, he added.

The attacker killed at the scene was identified as Yunus Emre Sarban, according to an interior ministry source.

Sarban had previously been linked to financial networks with ties to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
terror group, leading to his assets being frozen in 2021, according to the government’s Official Gazette.

There were no Israeli diplomats at the mission at the time, as most have been evacuated since the October 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
in Israel that set off the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
war.

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