Killer's parents among seven held over Russian ambassador shooting

[nitpicker]

Source: The Guardian


Killer's parents among seven held over Russian ambassador shooting

Shaun Walker in Moscow and Kareem Shaheen in Ankara

Tuesday 20 December 2016 09.54 GMT


Turkish authorities have detained seven people for questioning over the assassination of the Russian ambassador in Ankara, as a team of Russian investigators arrived in the country to aid the investigation. The parents, sister, roommate and three other relatives of the gunman, named as Mevlut Mert Altıntas, 22, were being questioned, Anadolu news agency reported. Andrei Karlov was shot multiple times by the off-duty riot police officer on Monday during the opening of a photography exhibition at a gallery in the Turkish capital. Altıntas was shot by police at the scene.

Officials from both countries have been quick to stress their desire for cooperation in the aftermath of the attack and insist the killing will not lead to a downward spiral in relations. Instead, both countries emphasised their joint work on Syria and said they were committed to fighting terrorism.
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The Turkish interior ministry said Altıntas was an officer in Ankara’s riot police squad, who was born in 1994 in Aydin and graduated from Izmir police academy. He had worked for the riot police for two and a half years, but was off duty at the time of the attack. He flashed his police ID at security guards when entering the exhibition and was allowed to pass despite his gun setting off the metal detector, according to reports.

Footage of the attack showed Altıntas, 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, he 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.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/20/russian-ambassador-shooting-turkey-seven-detained-gunman-parents

[haele]

1. Hmm. Erdogan's people are trying to link this to Gulin again.

He's their Goldberg, after all.
Time for another purge - er - "attempted coup", without doing anything to fix the actual problems in Turkey, especially the corruption and the links to IS.

Haele