{"id":69833,"date":"2013-04-22T01:38:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T22:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=69833"},"modified":"2014-01-08T11:27:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T09:27:23","slug":"anzac-day-terror-warning-for-australians-travelling-to-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/04\/22\/anzac-day-terror-warning-for-australians-travelling-to-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Anzac Day terror warning for Australians travelling to Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTRALIANS attending Gallipoli’s Anzac Day dawn service are being warned of the possibility of a terrorist attack in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Visitors making the April 25 pilgrimage are being told to “exercise a high degree of caution in Turkey because of the high threat of terrorist attack”.<\/p>\n

The warnings, contained in the Department of Foreign Affairs’\u00a0Smartraveller\u00a0bulletin for\u00a0Turkeyand Anzac travellers, ask people to be aware terrorists are constantly active in the country.<\/p>\n

The latest attack was in February when a suicide bomber targeted the US Embassy in Ankara, killing himself and a security guard and injuring others.<\/p>\n

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Australians are being warned of the possibility of terror attacks in Turkey as Anzac Day approaches. File image. Source: AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The Turkish Government has warned the group claiming responsibility is planning further attacks.<\/p>\n

There have been nine notable events since 2010, and Australian Amanda Rigg, 22, was killed when a suicide bomber hit an Istanbul police station in 2001.<\/p>\n

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“Terrorist attacks can occur anywhere at any time in Turkey,” the travel advice says.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“In recent years, terrorist attacks have occurred in tourist areas and locations frequented by foreigners.<\/p>\n

“Foreigners have been killed and injured.”<\/p>\n

Terrorism expert Professor\u00a0Clive Williams, from the Australian National University, said Australian tourists were not usually targets but the advice was sensible.<\/p>\n

Travellers risked being caught in “the wrong place”, as Ms Rigg had been, he said.<\/p>\n

“She was not targeted, she just happened to be where a bomb went off,” Professor Williams said.<\/p>\n

“In Turkey, the main target is the government and then second is the United States and then third is the UK.<\/p>\n

“You just need to be careful where you go and what you do in Turkey.”<\/p>\n

Travellers should avoid government offices, embassies and consulates, be wary in busy areas like transport hubs and exercise particular care around significant local dates, like May Day on May 1.<\/p>\n

Those considering travelling to areas bordering with Syria, Iraq and Iran are told to reconsider their need to travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AUSTRALIANS attending Gallipoli’s Anzac Day dawn service are being warned of the possibility of a terrorist attack in the country. Visitors making the April 25 pilgrimage are being told to “exercise a high degree of caution in Turkey because of the high threat of terrorist attack”. The warnings, contained in the Department of Foreign Affairs’\u00a0Smartraveller\u00a0bulletin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":69834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1074,1094],"tags":[7564],"class_list":["post-69833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-tourism","tag-anzac-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}