Jerusalem (CNN) -- A man carrying a knife, a can of gasoline and what authorities determined later was a toy gun broke a window at the Turkish Embassy on Tuesday in Tel Aviv and climbed inside, where he demanded to be granted refuge, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The man, who had tried to take the auxiliary ambassador hostage, was overpowered by Turkish security, the statement said.
He was in custody and was being interrogated, it said. None of the embassy staff was hurt, it added.
Turkey's semi-official Anadolu News Agency, citing an Israeli official, said the same man tried the same thing four years ago at the British Embassy in Tel Aviv.
"Everything is under control," said a Turkish Foreign Ministry official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak about the incident. "A person jumped over the wall and tried to get in. He had a knife. He was incapacitated by our security guard and hurt".
He said he did not know if any shots were fired. "He's a Palestinian. That's all we know," the Turkish official said. CNN
