The U.S. Consulate in Turkey's largest city announced it would not be handing out visas or providing any other services on Wednesday because of a "possible security threat."
The consulate will be operating with only a skeleton crew, State Department spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday. But it will be business as usual at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, the consulate in Adana, and the consular agency in Izmir, NBC News reported.
Kirby did not divulge any details about the reported threat. But Turkey borders civil war-torn Syria and has been battling Kurdish separatists for years and. more recently, ISIS.
The warning comes on the heels of a security message that was sent to U.S. citizens Friday warning of a possible threat against the Istanbul compound and advising them to avoid the consulate "through the remainder of the weekend until December 6, 2015."
