Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Photograph courtesy of WEF
Police have arrested a suspected suicide bomber outside the prime minister’s office in the Turkish capital Ankara.
Early reports claimed that police had shot and injured the suspect before he was taken to a nearby hospital, but an advisor to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that police fired warning shots into the air before arresting the man, and no-one was hurt.
The man was reportedly wearing a “suicide vest” of explosives, and was apprehended whilst attempting to enter the building.
Security has now been strengthened around the building as a precaution, although no information about another threat has been released.
Erdogan was not in the building during the incident.