{"id":12796,"date":"2018-08-26T09:27:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T09:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12796"},"modified":"2018-08-26T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T09:27:22","slug":"turkey-detains-two-more-suspects-over-us-embassy-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12796","title":{"rendered":"Turkey detains two more suspects over US embassy shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"88.9341317365\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Turkish police have arrested two more people for their suspected links to Monday&#8217;s drive-by shooting on the US embassy in capital Ankara, Anadolu Agency reports, in an attack coinciding with increased tensions between the NATO allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>Friday&#8217;s arrests raise the total number of arrested suspects to four and they<\/span>\u00a0are being interrogated by police, the agency reported on Sunday citing a police source.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>The detention period for Ahmet Celikten and Osman Gundas, the suspects arrested on Monday, was extended, it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Celikten and Gundas confessed to their involvement in the attack, the governor&#8217;s office in Ankara said.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span>No casualities<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Assailants had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/08\/turkey-shots-fired-embassy-ankara-deepening-row-180820054356692.html\" target=\"_blank\">fired six rounds<\/a> at the embassy&#8217;s security gate from a passing white vehicle at about 5am (02:00 GMT), with three bullets hitting an iron door and a window, the office said. There were no casualties.<\/p>\n<p><span>The Turkish police said the suspects were drunk at the time of the attack.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The embassy was closed for a public holiday to mark the Eid al-Adha festival, when the incident happened.<\/p>\n<p>The attack coincided with a deepening row between Ankara and Washington over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/08\/threatens-sanctions-turkey-detained-pastor-180817065237665.html\">trial of a US pastor held in Turkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span>Ties have been severely strained over the case of Andrew Brunson, leading the US to impose sanctions and increase tariffs that sent the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/08\/turks-woes-currency-crisis-it-kind-cold-war-180819051510161.html\">Turkish lira tumbling<\/a><span>\u00a0last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE: <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish police have arrested two more people for their suspected links to Monday&#8217;s drive-by shooting on the US embassy in capital Ankara, Anadolu Agency reports, in an attack coinciding with increased tensions between the NATO allies. Friday&#8217;s arrests raise the total number of arrested suspects to four and they\u00a0are being interrogated by police, the agency&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}