Terror threat: Germany closes embassy, schools in Turkey

Terror threat: Germany closes embassy, schools in Turkey

Thursday, March 17, 2016 12:20 pm


Germany closed its embassy in Ankara, its general consulate in Istanbul and German schools in the two cities after security services received concrete leads of an imminent attack, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Thursday.

“Yesterday evening, our security authorities received several concrete and very serious leads that terror attacks against our German representations in Turkey were being prepared,” Steinmeier told reporters in Berlin.

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