The Japanese Consulate General in Istanbul will be temporarily moved to a hotel Monday following recent fatal bomb attacks in Turkey.
The four-story wooden consulate general is located a few hundred meters from the British Consulate General, which was hit in a massive suicide bombing earlier this month, the Foreign Ministry said Friday.
"There is a lot of traffic around and the building is old," a Foreign Ministry official said. "We judged that it is necessary to overhaul our security, including the location and the structure of the consulate general."
The provisional consulate will be set up at the Hilton Hotel in the heart of the city, the ministry said.
Powerful explosions ripped through two Istanbul synagogues Nov. 15 and through British targets in the city five days later, leaving about 50 people dead and many injured.