Russian diplomat murdered in Turkey; Russia's involvement ins Syrian war ;how many wanna bet this is either mossad, the war in Syria cited as reason. Hmph, I think we all know who was responsible for this mossad mi6 or you know who. Wonder what's gonna' happen now.
NOw you know what I think. How many believe this was about Russia's entry into the Syrian war on Assad's side? And this Turkish goon from out of nowhere decides to be a revolutionary? For Syria? Syria had no problems until they were purposely attacked for no reason by mercernaries hired by foreign entities who were not Russian calling them 'freedom fighters' and of course we're supposed to take their word for it that Assad is just such a terrible monster (well they ought to know for it takes one to know one) at least they ought to know about monsters since they shot that Russian airliner down full of civilians just to show Russia their 'power' along with that plane from Malaysia that went 'missing' just so they could kill four chinese ceo's for one of their nwo members! Yes we're learning about monsters! and this assasination was a warning to Russia from the new world order monsters! The world has gotten a little tired of this bullshit assed game you been playing to long on us! Very tired! That's why we welcome God's decision to destroy you utterly and completely! Here's a warning to you; God is not with you anymore! He's getting ready to destroy you utterly and completely! Quit while you're ahead, coz your 'wealth and power' will not save you from His Wrath! Who do you think gave it to you anyway??? NOw this cop wants to stand up for Syria?!!? My fuckin' ass! He was trained and set up to be a patsy like Lee Harvey Oswald in America over the Kennedy assasination and they made sure he died at the scene. You're not fooling anyone anymore! As God said whatever you do in the dark He will have it shouted from the rooftops! God is taking you down, and nothing you do will stop it!
Russian ambassador to Turkey shot dead in Ankara art gallery
Gunman later killed by special forces was police officer Mevlut Mert Altıntas
Attacker shouted ‘Don’t forget Aleppo’ after opening fire on ambassador
Putin says ‘provocation’ aimed at sabotaging Russo-Turkish relations
The Russian ambassador to Turkey has been shot dead by a police officer who shouted “Don’t forget Aleppo” as he pulled the trigger.
The chilling attack on Monday evening, which was captured on video,
appeared to be a backlash against Russian military involvement in the
Syrian civil war.
Andrei Karlov was attacked at the opening of an art exhibition in
Ankara by a man believed to be an off-duty Turkish police officer.
Karlov was several minutes into a speech when he was shot. Footage of
the attack showed a man dressed in a suit and tie standing calmly behind
the ambassador. He then pulled out a gun, shouted “Allahu Akbar” and
fired at least eight shots.
After firing at the ambassador, the man shouted in Turkish: “Don’t forget Aleppo. Don’t forget Syria.
Unless our towns are secure, you won’t enjoy security. Only death can
take me from here. Everyone who is involved in this suffering will pay a
price.”
He also shouted in Arabic: “We are the one who pledged allegiance to Muhammad, to wage jihad.”
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, called the killing a
“provocation” aimed at sabotaging a rapprochement between Moscow and
Ankara and attempts to resolve the conflict in Syria.
“The crime that was committed is without doubt a provocation aimed at
disrupting the normalisation of Russian-Turkish relations and
disrupting the peace process in Syria that is being actively advanced by
Russia, Turkey and Iran,” he said in televised comments.
Putin said: “There can be only one answer to this - stepping up the fight against terrorism, and the bandits will feel this.”
Putin said that Russian officials would be dispatched to Ankara to
investigate the killing. “We have to know who directed the hand of the
killer,” he said.
Turkish special forces surrounded the gallery and killed the
attacker. Photographs from the aftermath appeared to show him lying dead
on the floor. Three other people were wounded.
The gunman gestures after shooting Karlov. Photograph: Burhan Ozbilici/AP
Local media outlets said security guards at the scene had told them
that the killer showed a police ID to enter the gallery. The Turkish
interior ministry named the attacker as Mevlut Mert Altıntas, an officer
in Ankara’s riot police squad, who was born in 1994 in Aydin and
graduated from Izmir police academy.
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“It
has saddened us and our people. I offer my condolences to the Russian
federation and the Russian people,” Suleyman Soylu, the Turkish interior
minster, told reporters.
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, called Putin on Monday evening to brief him on the attack.
The Russian president cancelled a planned trip to the theatre on
Monday evening and called an urgent meeting with his foreign minister,
Sergei Lavrov, and the heads of the security services.
In a bizarre coincidence, Putin had planned to see the play Woe from
Wit, written by the poet and diplomat Alexander Griboyedov, who was
murdered by a mob when ambassador to Tehran in 1829.
Konstantin Kosachev, the head of the foreign relations committee in
Russia’s upper house of parliament, said: “A tragedy of this scale has
not happened since the time of Griboyedov. There have been attacks on
our Russian and Soviet diplomats, but not something this dramatic.”
Kosachev said the repercussions of the killing on Russian-Turkish
relations would depend on the details of the incident: “It could have
been a planned terrorist attack by extremists or it could be the work of
a lone maniac. After we know, we’ll be able to understand how this will
affect Russian-Turkish relations.”
Kosachev’s counterpart in the lower house, Alexey Pushkov, said
Karlov’s death was “a result of political and media hysteria around
Aleppo sown by the enemies of Russia”.
Turkish security officials and Erdoğan supporters have alleged that
the gunman was linked to the exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, whom
they accuse of orchestrating a failed coup in July. A spokesman for
Gülen described the accusation as “laughable” and told Reuters that it
was intended to cover up for lax security.
Internationally, the killing throws into doubt the ongoing evacuation
deal for civilians in besieged east Aleppo, an agreement that was
brokered by Turkey and Russia. A source with knowledge of the
negotiations said Moscow was the main reason the deal did not fall apart
over the weekend, despite the objections of Iranian and jihadi
interlocutors.
The ambassador had been part of discussions with Turkey that led to
an evacuation of east Aleppo getting under way late last week. Russia
and Iran engineered the deal allowing civilians and rebel fighters in
Aleppo to be evacuated, with Turkey acting as the brokers for the Syrian
opposition in the discussion.
The attack comes the day before the Turkish foreign minister, Mevlüt
Çavuşoğlu, is due in Moscow for Syria talks with his Russian and Iranian
counterparts. In the weeks running up to the fall of east Aleppo, the
Russians, Turks and Iranians have increasingly been working together on
Syria’s future, to the exclusion of western powers, including the US, as
well as the Gulf states, normally the sponsors of the Syrian
opposition.
Putin has sought to capitalise on his new role as the lead power in
Syria by proposing wider Syrian peace talks at a meeting in Astana, the
capital of Kazakhstan, to be attended by Russia, Turkey and Iran on 27
December. Putin insisted his proposal would not conflict with the United
Nations process in Geneva, but instead complement it. He wants to forge
a Turkish, Iranian and Russian axis before Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Many Syrian opposition figures fear they will be marginalised by the Putin initiative and his new triumvirate.
In his time as ambassador, Karlov presided over a rocky period in Russo-Turkish relations. When Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane in November 2015, Moscow responded furiously, with Putin calling it “a stab in the back by the accomplices of terrorists”.
Turkish police secure the area near the art gallery. Photograph: Umit Bektas/Reuters
Earlier this year, the pair reconciled, after Erdoğan wrote a letter
of apology to Putin. The two leaders met at a summit in August amid a distinct thaw in relations and in what resembles a loose anti-western alliance.
Kosachev, who knew Karlov personally, said: “The Turkish period in
his career saw fantastic highs and lows. Everyone was hoping for another
high.”
However, Russian actions in Syria have angered many Turks. In recent
days, protests in Istanbul against Russian involvement in Syria and
Aleppo, including a demonstration in front of the Russian consulate on
the city’s famed İstiklal Avenue, have occurred on a regular basis. The
protests have often had a significant Islamist contingent.
The assassination of the Russian ambassador, and the security lapse
that allowed it to happen, will anger Putin but, in the medium term, it
is possible that the two leaders could unite in an anti-terror alliance.
Fatih Öke, the press attache of Turkey’s embassy in Washington DC, tweeted:
“The bullet to Ambassador Karlov is not only aims him. It aims also
Turkish Russian relation. We are praying for his good health and peace.”
US President-elect Donald Trump said in a statement: “Today we offer
our condolences to the family and loved ones of Russian Ambassador to
Turkey Andrei Karlov, who was assassinated by a radical Islamic
terrorist. The murder of an ambassador is a violation of all rules of
civilized order and must be universally condemned.”
The US state department spokesman, John Kirby, said: “We condemn this
act of violence, whatever its source. Our thoughts and prayers are with
him and his family.” Karlov was a career diplomat who had previously served as ambassador to North Korea. The British ambassador to Turkey, Richard Moore, described him as a “quietly spoken, hospitable professional”. Additional reporting by Ceren Kenar
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