About 400 protesters threw objects and tried to storm the Syrian consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul Sunday, Xinhua reported.
The demonstrators chanted slogans against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters in front of the consulate located in Nisantasi area of Istanbul.
A report said the attack on the consulate took place following the news of shelling in Homs, which the Syrian opposition said claimed the lives of over 200 civilians.
Homs is one of the main centres of the opposition in Syria.
Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu made a statement in response to the Homs attack, calling on the UN to take a clear and precise position on the subject of loss of civilian lives.
Protesters storm Syrian consulate in Istanbul - The Times of India
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In a retaliatory move against the West, Syria has quietly freed al-Qaida's operations chief in Europe and the London 7/7 bombings mastermind after keeping him in detention for six years, a media report said.
Abu Musab al-Suri, who had a $4.75 million pound US state department bounty on his head, has been freed from a Syrian jail, The Telegraph newspaper reported.
Al-Suri alias Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, identified as al-Qaida's operations chief in Europe, is accused of planning the London bombings in 2005 that killed 52 people, the Madrid train bombings in 2004 which left 191 dead and an attack on the Paris Metro in 1995.
He had been held in Syria, his country of birth, for six years after being captured in Pakistan, the paper said.
But his release is now said to have come as a warning to Western allies, the United States and Britain, about the consequences of turning their backs on the embattled Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad, the paper said.
Syria retaliates against West; frees al-Qaida's Europe chief - The Times of India