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Newsline: Israeli Embassy in Ankara ups security after failed attack
Security at the Israeli Embassy in Ankara was bolstered following a failed attack outside the compound. Turkish police maintains an increased presence at the site as a matter of routine, and has boosted deployment even further following the foiled attack. The incident took place in the early hours of Wednesday afternoon, when a man, later identified as Osman Nuri Caliskan, 38, charged security guards stationed at the main entrance to the Israeli diplomatic compound in the Turkish capital. The guards called to the man to stop, but he ignored them, shouting “Allahu akbar” (“God is great”) and “We’ll stop bloodshed in the Middle East,” as he charged the guards. They opened fire in his direction, and shot him in the leg.
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=36621
Newsline: 75 former ambassadors blast ‘ignorant’ Trump
Seventy-five career diplomats said in a letter Thursday that they will never vote for Donald Trump, claiming he has “insulted” America’s allies and displayed a level of ignorance that could embolden our enemies. “None of us will vote for Donald J. Trump,” declared the signatories, all of whom simultaneously endorsed the Democratic presidential ticket. “Very simply, this election is different from any election we can recall. One of the candidates — Donald J. Trump — is entirely unqualified to to serve as president and commander in chief.” Those behind the letter — including Susan Burk, former special representative of President Obama for Nuclear Nonproliferation; James Cunningham, former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Israel and the United Nations; Jeffrey Davidow, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico; and Thomas Pickering, former undersecretary of state for Political Affairs and U.S. ambassador to Russia, India, Israel and the United Nations — described Trump as “ignorant of the complex nature of the challenges facing our country” and uninterested “in being educated.”
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