A. An armed person entered the factory of an international company in Kocaeli on ThursdayAccording to preliminary information, many workers were taken hostage in a province located on the eastern outskirts of Istanbul. protest for Gaza war.
Turkish public institution Anadolu confirmed that a large number of police officers went to the cosmetics factory in the industrial site in the Gebze district.
Local digital Gebze Newspaper details the following: The hostage taking took place in a factory of the American multinational Procter & Gamble It was stated that the aim of the attacker was to protest the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza.
Said agency publishes a video you see A middle-aged man, part of his face covered with a Palestinian scarf, holding a gun in one hand and a yellow device on his chest It looks like an imitation of an explosive belt.
The alleged attacker poses alone in front of a wall decorated with Turkish and Palestinian flags, with clumsily written graffiti and slogans (in Turkish) ‘The gates will open’ and ‘For Gaza’, as well as a cryptic ‘O’. place of prayer or death’.
According to Anadolu’s news, the Governor of Kocaeli, to which Gebze district is affiliated, His office has not yet released information about the incident and the number of workers affected is unknown..