Consulate General of the United States, Istanbul

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The Consulate General of the United States, Istanbul is one of the diplomatic missions in Turkey.[2] It was targeted in terrorist attacks in July 2008 and August 2015.[3][4][5]

History

Entrance of the US Embassy in Constantinople, 1923

In 1907, the United States relocated its embassy to the Ottoman Empire to Palazzo Corpi, originally built in 1882. In 1908, a chancery annex designed by George Oakley Totten Jr. was added on the property's rear side.[6]:51–53 Following the Empire's abolition in 1922 and subsequent relocation of the Swedish embassy to the new capital of Ankara, the building became the U.S. consulate-general, until closing in 2003 after having been vulnerable to car bombs.[7] It was then replaced with the present building.

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References

  1. ↑"History - U.S. Consulate General Istanbul". Retrieved 15 Feb 2018.
  2. ↑"Consulate General of the United States, Istanbul". Archived from the original on 2015-08-11. Retrieved 2015-08-10.
  3. ↑The Wall Street JournalU.S. Consulate in Istanbul Targeted in Terror Attacks 8/10/2015
  4. ↑Yesim Dikmen and Seyhmus Cakan, Reuters U.S. consulate in Turkey targeted as wave of attacks kills nine Aug 10, 2015
  5. ↑BBC NewsTurkey attacks: Deadly violence in Istanbul and Sirnak 2015/08/10
  6. ↑Skip Moskey, Caroline Mesrobian Hickman & John Edward Hasse (2013), The Turkish Ambassador's Residence and the Cultural History of Washington, D.C., Istanbul Kültür University
  7. ↑"The Old U.S. Consulate in Istanbul". U.S. Department of State. 25 April 2005.

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