A violent shootout between police and suspected assailants outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday has left one gunman dead and two other people wounded, according to the city’s governor. The clash also left two Turkish police officers with minor injuries, marking a shocking outbreak of violence in a major urban center that has already faced heightened security threats in recent years. Initial reports from Turkish public broadcaster TRT had claimed two of three attackers were killed, but official accounts have since corrected that narrative, confirming only one assailant died in the exchange of gunfire. Turkish law enforcement has already completed the identification process for all involved attackers, senior officials confirmed. Turkish Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci shared key details about the attackers’ movements ahead of the incident, revealing the group traveled to Istanbul from the northwestern Turkish city of Izmit using a rented vehicle. Ciftci also confirmed that one of the assailants has ties to an “organisation that exploits the region,” though official government authorities have declined to publicly name the specific extremist group the suspect is linked to. Despite the government’s refusal to confirm the affiliation, multiple Turkish media outlets have pointed to the Islamic State (IS) militant group as the likely connection. This speculation is bolstered by recent IS-linked violence in the nearby region of Yalova, a coastal province on the Sea of Marmara located approximately 55 miles southeast of Istanbul. In a December attack in Yalova, IS militants opened fire on a Turkish police unit, killing three officers and wounding nine others in one of the deadliest militant attacks in the country in recent months. Additional details released by Ciftci also revealed that the two attackers involved in Tuesday’s incident are brothers, and one of the pair has a prior criminal record related to drug offenses. Turkish security forces have launched a full investigation into the plot, working to uncover any broader networks that may have supported the attack and determine the full scope of the assailants’ plans ahead of the clash at the consulate.