Protesters attack Greek police guarding Turkey’s Thessaloniki Consulate


The police kiosk guarding Turkey's Thessaloniki Consulate, which includes the house that the Republic's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born as the Atatürk Museum, was attacked by Molotov cocktails along with the police bus located on the same street on late Friday.Turkish Consulate building was also hit by Molotov cocktails.The attack was carried out by anti-government protesters who were demonstrating against high security cell-type prisons.Consulate officials told the Anadolu Agency that more than ten Molotov cocktails were thrown by protesters.Outer walls of the consulate building were harmed due to fire, and a police car that caught fire was extinguished by the consulate staff. Officials told that it is thought provoking that the police guarding the consulate have been attacked each time after a protest took place in the city.The police kiosk guarding the consulate had been attacked nine times earlier.