A armed man broke into a factory of an international company this Thursday in Kocaeli, a province on the eastern outskirts of Istanbul, where has taken several workers hostageaccording to the first information, apparently to protest the war in Gaza.

The Turkish public agency Anadolu confirms that numerous police units have attended a cosmetic factory in an industrial estate in the Gebze district. The local digital newspaper ‘Gebze Gazetesi’ details that the hostage taking is in a factory in the American multinational Procter & Gamble and that the attacker’s motive would be to protest against the war between Israel and Hamas.

The aforementioned agency has also released a video in which a middle-aged man is seen, with part of his face covered by a Palestinian scarf, holding a gun and with a yellow device on his chest that looks like an imitation of an explosive belt. . The alleged assailant poses alone in front of a wall decorated with the Turkish and Palestinian flags, in a clumsily executed graffiti, and the slogans in Turkish ‘The doors will be opened’ and ‘Through Gaza’, as well as a cryptic ‘O place of prayer or death’.