An assassination attempt was made against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and during the official opening of a Municipality building in Istanbul.

Turkish media have disseminated the aforesaid information.

Following the official ceremony, when the PM’s motorcade was moving slowly through the crowd, the security service agents noticed an armed man.

Seeing that the police were moving toward him to neutralize him, the unidentified person threw a gun in the direction of Erdogan’s service vehicle. But shortly thereafter he was detained and taken to a police station. 

It is reported that the 32-year-old suspect is not associated with any organization.

During interrogation, he said that did not want to kill, but rather to scare the PM.