In Turkey, was shot dead by Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov
The Ambassador of Russia in Turkey was shot by a Turkish police officer that was screaming about the civil war in Syria in the capital Ankara on Monday, according to witnesses and officials. the Press Secretary of the foreign Ministry of Russia Maria Zakharova confirmed that the Ambassador, the 62-year-old Andrew Charles was declared dead and called the incident a terrorist act.
The Turkish officers responded to the incident by shooting the gunman, who was identified by officials as 22-year-old mevlц?t MERT Altд?ntaе?. Turkish officials have confirmed earlier reports that Altд?ntaе? he was a COP working in Ankara. The leaders of Russia and Turkey announced that the murder of Charles was intended to destroy the Turkish-Russian relations. Speaking in a televised speech during a meeting with senior officials, Russian President Vladimir Putin called it a "provocation aimed to disrupt Turkish-Russian relations and the peace process in Syria."
"We need to know who sent the killer," said Putin in a televised speech. He ordered senior officials to strengthen the protection of the Turkish Embassy in Moscow and asked Turkey to increase the level of security of the Russian Embassy in Ankara. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a video made on several Turkish TV channels. He said "this is a provocation to harm the process of normalization of Turkish-Russian relations. But both Russian and Turkish officials have decided not to succumb to this provocation."
U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry called the murder of the Russian Ambassador in Turkey, "despicable attack" and said the U.S. is ready to offer assistance to Russia and Turkey in the course of the investigation. UN Secretary-General ban Ki-moon condemned what he called "a senseless act of terror", for which "there can be no excuses."
The Ambassador was speaking at a photo exhibition "Russia through the eyes of the Turks", when the room burst into a murderer and shouting slogans, fired at least 8 times. The attacker also said a few words in Russian and broke a few photographs hanging in the exhibition.
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