{"id":569751,"date":"2026-04-07T12:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569751\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:28:14","slug":"1-gunman-shot-dead-outside-israeli-consulate-in-istanbul-2-other-gunmen-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569751\/","title":{"rendered":"1 gunman shot dead outside Israeli consulate in Istanbul, 2 other gunmen injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">Two police officers were also injured in the gunfire exchange, police said.<\/p>\n<p>ByDavid Brennan and Jon Haworth  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ABCNews logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/origin-abcnews.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, April 7, 2026 11:18AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ABC News Live\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">One gunman was shot dead outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul and two other gunmen were injured on Tuesday, Turkish police told ABC News.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police stand by a cordoned off area outside a building that previously housed the Israeli Consulate after gunman opened fire on April 7, 2026 in Istanbul, Turkey. \" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/18851445_040726-cc-getty-turkey-consulate-img.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police stand by a cordoned off area outside a building that previously housed the Israeli Consulate after gunman opened fire on April 7, 2026 in Istanbul, Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Burak Kara\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The men, who were wearing camouflage trousers, approached the consulate before engaging in a gunfight with armed police and security. Two police officers were injured in the exchange, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Israeli consulate in Istanbul has been closed since Oct 7., 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">ABC News&#8217; Joe Simonetti contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two police officers were also injured in the gunfire exchange, police said. ByDavid Brennan and Jon Haworth Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[251342,9257,4,450,451,6377,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-569751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-251342","9":"tag-abc-news","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-breakingnews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-national","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}