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The building in Ankara was put into lockdown over the terror fears.

Security was immediately stepped up and the gates were slammed shut after the alert was made early this afternoon.

Ziya Pir of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party wrote on Twitter: “We were notified of an attack… The Meclis [parliament] is being evacuated.”

Police have now said the warning turned out to be a false alarm.