Russian AMB. attacker is 22 yr. old Turkish police M.M.A from Ankara police special force dept PIC..

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METIN GURCAN ‏@Metin4020 44m44 minutes ago

The attacker is 22 years-old Turkish police M.M.A from Ankara police special force department..
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https://twitter.com/gloomynews/status/810902645829287936
11:40 AM - 19 Dec 2016




Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, was reportedly shot and killed today while visiting an art gallery in Ankara. According to Turkish media reports, the gunman chanted Islamist slogans after firing the shot. Photographs from the scene show a man in a black suit holding a pistol near the podium where Karlov was shot. The video below appears to show the moment of the attack:

Ankara. pic.twitter.com/gEnL2J04SV
— Guus Valk (@apjvalk) December 19, 2016

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Not much is known about the attack yet, but it comes after widespread anger and days of protests in Turkey against the Russian-backed Syrian regime assault on the city of Aleppo. Turkey has seen a number of major terrorist attacks this year, by both Islamist groups, including ISIS, and Kurdish militants.

Russia and Turkey have been at odds for years over the conflict in Syria, with Moscow as the primary foreign backer of Bashar al-Assad’s government and Turkey aiding the rebellion against him. Relations between the two countries hit a nadir late last year after Turkey shot down a Russian fighter on the Syria-Turkey border. While the underlying dispute remains, ties have improved over the past year between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The foreign and defense ministers of Russia, Iran, and Turkey are due to meet in Moscow tomorrow to discuss the future of Syria.

Russia has justified waging war in defense of Assad’s regime on the ground that it is fighting terrorism. But while Putin and Assad are definitely crushing the rebels as a force that can effectively fight and control territory in Syria, those fighters may now turn to traditional terrorist tactics—bombings, assassinations—and not just within the borders of Syria.........................

Update 12:39 p.m.: Longer video from the scene shows the gunman yelling about Syria and Aleppo:

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1. Pin/ID used by shooter? if so, plus him behind the ambassador during the speech, no doubt he was a b

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Pin/ID used by shooter? if so, plus him behind the ambassador during the speech, no doubt he was a bodyguard (h/t @radixposterior=









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Al Nodrog ‏@996al 38m38 minutes ago

@AbraxasSpa Did the Ambassador not have his own security detail? Especially in Turkey.
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Abraxas Spa ‏@AbraxasSpa 37m37 minutes ago

@996al should be a mixed team
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The 6-fingered man ‏@DavisMountains 19m19 minutes ago

@AbraxasSpa @996al Ambo reportedly routinely rej security dets.1 report said shooter claimed to be private security when entering the venue.
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Paz û Bzn ‏@PazUBzn 35m35 minutes ago

@AbraxasSpa @_paulo34 @radixposterior he has been ID'd, young 22 year old police officer two years in service