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Evacuation of the Iranian embassy in Ankara after a suicide bombing
Turkish media reported Monday that the Iranian embassy in the capital, Ankara, was evacuated following threats of a suicide bombing.
The ambassador and embassy members were evacuated after the embassy received a warning about the risk of a suicide attack, the agency said.
An AFP photographer reported that part of the street where the embassy was located was closed to traffic, and a number of police officers searched the cars.
In 2015 and 2016, Turkey witnessed a series of attacks, the bloodiest of which was an attack on New Year's Eve in January 2017, when an armed man killed 39 people at the nightclub of Reina in Istanbul.