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The US Embassy in Turkey has denied claims that the husband of America’s Consul General in Istanbul crashed his car while drink-driving and then walked away from the scene after claiming diplomatic immunity.

Turkish media reported that Mounir Elkhamri, the husband of US consul general in Istanbul Julie Eadeh, was driving a consular vehicle in the city when he crashed into another vehicle at around 5.40am today. 

Police confirmed that the other driver was injured in the crash on Buyukdere Avenue and was taken to hospital. Here’s more about Lawyer Turkey look at our own web page.  

Local media claimed Elkhamri had been found to be nearly five times over the country’s alcohol limit. 

He was not arrested by police officers after he quoted diplomatic immunity, reports claimed.

But the U.S.Embassy in Turkey denied the reports and said in a statement that Elkhamri had not been involved in a car crash and was not in Istanbul at the time of the collision. 

‘The U.S.Consul General’s husband has not been involved in a vehicle accident and was not in Istanbul at the time of the reported collision. We are in contact with the Turkish authorities on this matter,’ the embassy said. 

It comes after the wife of a US diplomat used diplomatic immunity to leave the UK after a fatal car accident and was last week brought to justice.

US citizen Anne Sacoolas, 45, was sentenced at the Old Bailey in London, UK, Lawyer Turkey to eight months in prison, Lawyer Turkey suspended for 12 months, for causing the death of 19-year-old Briton Harry Dunn on August 27, 2019. 

The former spy had been driving on the wrong side of the road when she smashed into Mr Dunn outside  Croughton in Northamptonshire.He was flung from his motorcycle as Sacoolas’ Volvo XC90 burst into flames. He later died in hospital.   

But  in London to be sentenced last week after fleeing to the US, and took advice of a government employer not to attend. 

Footage emerged at the time of the moment the ex-CIA operative was filmed scurrying away from a reporter as she refused to answer why she didn’t appear in person at the court.