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Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by Nobody: 9:35am On Dec 20, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1u6j5-wXLY

Russian Ambassador To Turkey Shot Dead In Ankara Art Gallery

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.

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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.

The attacker was killed by Turkish special forces after they surrounded the gallery. Photographs from the aftermath appeared to show him lying dead on the floor. Three other people were wounded.

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.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/19/russian-ambassador-to-turkey-wounded-in-ankara-shooting-attack
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by viyon02: 10:05am On Dec 20, 2016
Am just sorry for Turkey putins is over ready for them.
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by Life4Varnity: 3:39pm On Dec 20, 2016
END TIME ALERT

ITS WELL
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by Aburi001: 3:40pm On Dec 20, 2016
I forsee the World peace being threatened soonest.

With Putin and Trump sitting at the driving seats, full scale wars are inevitable grin

Turkey just murdered a sleep and very soon your guess will be as good as mine.

It's no longer a tale that the collabo between Putin and Trump paved way for Trump''s "Victory" over Hillary Clinton. Even the American CIA couldn't beat the Russians Cycber-tech.

Never toy with the Russian Warlord grin
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by zicoraads: 3:40pm On Dec 20, 2016
This news is old. And Nairaland just brought it now to its FP...Chai!! embarassed
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by okonja(m): 3:40pm On Dec 20, 2016
WW III embarassed embarassed embarassed
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by Fairgodwin(m): 3:40pm On Dec 20, 2016
I thought this same news was on Nairaland front page earlier? Abi, am I missing something? undecided
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by JohnEazy(m): 3:40pm On Dec 20, 2016
I won't blame him
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by ralphblac(m): 3:40pm On Dec 20, 2016
MrEverest:
ISLAMABAD & Allahu Akbar!
receive sense
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by notoriousbabe: 3:41pm On Dec 20, 2016
E don shele be dat. World war don dey do press up for Russia
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by madridguy(m): 3:42pm On Dec 20, 2016
Wrong move by the useless policeman. How could you killed a Russian? Why not enter plane to Saudi arabia/US and kill the real architect of the Syria conflict?

Nonsense.
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by saintneo(m): 3:42pm On Dec 20, 2016
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Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by Edenoscar(m): 3:42pm On Dec 20, 2016
ralphblac:
receive sense
amen!

If not for NATO, turkey would be begging for forgiveness,
#putin #russia
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by lordm(m): 3:42pm On Dec 20, 2016
Big Bang Theory loading
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by vivaciousvivi(f): 3:42pm On Dec 20, 2016
As if the world doesn't have enough problems.
Putin will be high on anger by now undecided
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by realGURU(m): 3:43pm On Dec 20, 2016
mhm
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by KingRex1(m): 3:43pm On Dec 20, 2016
How come this is just coming on fp
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by MrPresident1: 3:44pm On Dec 20, 2016
Na wah o shocked
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by madamcoolstory: 3:44pm On Dec 20, 2016
The idiotic police guy just escalated the existing tension. What problem exactly was he trying to solve by killing the ambassador? Misplaced anger. If he wanted to help, he would have gone to join the rebel and and fight a legitimate government.

Mtscheeew.
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by seangy4konji: 3:44pm On Dec 20, 2016
i like his shiny shoes...
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by MrBONE2(m):
WTF!After ALEPPO has fall Expect ANKARA has fall.
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by Mopolchi: 3:44pm On Dec 20, 2016
Ghen Ghen the part three of the movie wan start. *Where's my popcorn?*
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by CuteCeo: 3:44pm On Dec 20, 2016
Smh
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by sauxee(m): 3:45pm On Dec 20, 2016
1994..hmmm na even small boy slf
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by AKMoney1(m): 3:45pm On Dec 20, 2016
How many times this thing wan make fp?
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by roymary: 3:46pm On Dec 20, 2016
Well- It looks more like a scripted scene to me. These war-mongers need a reason to go on more bombing spree. undecided undecided undecided
Re: Turkish Policeman Kills Russian Ambassador To Turkey Over Aleppo by Nobody: 3:46pm On Dec 20, 2016
cry
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