Assassination of Russian Ambassador in Turkey

The Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office said Monday that it had identified five suspects connected to the assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov carried out by off-duty Turkish police officer Mevlut Mert Altintas in December 2016.

Russian President Vladimir Putin initiated to introduce relevant security measures for diplomatic missions abroad.

Another suspect has been detained in Turkey as part of investigation of the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andrei Karlov, the Anadolu news agency reported Wednesday.

AP photographer Burhan Ozbilici won the 2017 World Press Photo contest for his image of murdered Russia's Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov and his assassin, the competition organizers said Monday in a press release.

An Ankara court has ordered to arrest two people who were earlier detained over the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov.

Moscow hopes that all organizers and accomplices of the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov will be brought to account.

A street in the Turkish capital of Ankara was renamed in honor of Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov who was assassinated last month by an off-duty police officer.

Ankara's Cagdas Sanat Merkezi modern arts center exhibition hall where Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov was killed has been named after the diplomat, local media reported on Thursday.

The Turkish police arrested five people in connection with the killing of Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov, Turkish media reported Saturday.

The murderer of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov was looking for data on the Russian diplomat via his former roommate's computer back in October 2016, according to local media.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Jaafari stated that the murder of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov is not only aggression against Russia, but aggression against all the diplomats in the world.

Turkish off-duty police officer Mevlut Mert Altintas, who killed Russian ambassador to Turkey, was not accepted to become the president’s bodyguard, despite he passed an exam to join the presidential security guards.

The attempt to sour the relationship between Russia and Turkey, to prevent further rapprochement of the two countries, to trigger a new crisis, failed, according to the spokesman of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Russia's Federation Council called on the Turkish lawmakers to take the investigation of murder of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov under parliamentary control, a lawmaker in Russia's upper house of parliament Murat Khapsirokov said Friday.

This is no justification for Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov’s murder and similar kind of incidents, Vice-Chair of Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee of the European Parliament Takis Hadjigeorgiou told Sputnik.

Moroccan authorities have opened a criminal case against the authors of offensive comments in the social media with relation to the murder of Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, Morocco’s Interior Ministry said in a statement.

On Monday, Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov was killed by Turkish off-duty police officer Mevlut Mert Altintas at an art gallery exhibition opening in Ankara. Sputnik spoke with expert on Russia Turkey relations Doruk Ergun about what kind of implications can this incident have on the bilateral relations between the two countries?

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim will visit the Russian Embassy in Ankara in connection with the murder of Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov, embassy spokeswoman Irina Kasimova said Thursday.

Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov assassinated in Ankara was buried on Thursday at the Khimki cemetery in northern Moscow.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has come to pay last respects to Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, who was killed in Ankara on Monday.