ISTANBUL, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- A group of people on Sunday staged a demonstration in front of the U.S. consulate general in Istanbul over the killing of a senior Iranian commander in an American airstrike two days ago.
The demonstrators gathered outside the compound, located in the Istinye neighborhood on the European side of Istanbul, chanting "Down with America, Down with Israel!"
They hung up portraits of Major General Qassem Soleimani on a wall in the street, and some were seen kissing the portraits of the former commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, who was killed on Friday in a U.S. drone strike at Iraq's Baghdad airport.
The U.S. strike has dramatically escalated regional tensions, with Tehran vowing revenge for Soleimani's death.
