At least two embassies of Western countries received warnings about new security threats in Ankara, and Serbia warned its citizens from traveling to the country two weeks after the bomb explosion in the center of Istanbul, reports Reuters.
Three Western European embassies and one major international organization told Reuters that the Turkish authorities warned them about potential threats, asking them not to call them due to the delicacy of the issue.
A large organization in an electronic letter to employees, which Reuters got acquainted, emphasized risks in shopping centers, bus stations and airports due to the possibility of response attacks from the militants.
The Ministry of Defense and Internal Affairs of Turkey refused to comment on warnings.
Meanwhile, the Serbian information agency Tanjug quoted the country’s foreign minister Ivitsa Dacich, who stated that citizens of the country should avoid traveling to Turkey and especially to Ankara in the coming weeks due to possible attacks.
“I want to warn citizens that, according to security agencies in the next few weeks, we can expect terrorist attacks, and in this case this information belongs to the capital of Turkey Ankara,” Dachich said in a statement for Tanjug.
A warning may also relate to other parts of Turkey, said Dachich and warned Citizens of Serbia so that they would not go to the country without urgent need: “If our citizens are already there, they should avoid crowded places such as pedestrian zones, metro, Bus and railway stations and other similar places, ”he said.