{"id":145485,"date":"2011-11-30T14:48:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T10:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=145485"},"modified":"2011-11-30T14:48:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T10:48:07","slug":"shooter-killed-after-opening-fire-in-istanbuls-sultanahmet-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/11\/30\/shooter-killed-after-opening-fire-in-istanbuls-sultanahmet-square.html","title":{"rendered":"Shooter Killed After Opening Fire in Istanbul&#8217;s Sultanahmet Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shooter that wounded two people by opening fire at Istanbul&#8217;s historic Sultanahmet Square has been killed by security forces, NTVMSNBC just reported.<\/p>\n<p>Witness accounts state that the shooter threatened the soldier on duty at the Topkap\u0131 Palace gates with his weapon and took the soldier\u2019s G3 army gun. He then began shooting.<\/p>\n<p>A soldier and a security guard have been wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces surrounded and emptied the square. The clashes continued until the security forces killed the shooter within the Palace walls.<\/p>\n<p>Governor of Istanbul H\u00fcseyin Avni Mutlu stated that the shooter&#8217;s aims are &#8220;purely personal,&#8221; the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/n.php?n=three-wounded-in-open-fire-in-sultanahmet-square-2011-11-30\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter was identified as a 36-year-old Libyan man who had arrived at the scene in a vehicle that had a Syrian licence plate.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shooter that wounded two people by opening fire at Istanbul&#8217;s historic Sultanahmet Square has been killed by security forces.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10933,35242,35243,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}