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Osem	19-12-2016 18:28

Russian Ambassador to Turkey shot dead in Ankara

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The Russian ambassador to Ankara, Andrei Karlov, has been wounded by a gunman while visiting a photo gallery in the Turkish capital.
Several other people were reportedly also injured in the attack, a day after protests in Turkey over Russia's military intervention in Syria.
According to Russian TV, the ambassador had been attending an exhibition called "Russia as seen by Turks".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38369962

He has since died. I can see there being many more attacks on Russian interests in Turkey.

GrimUpNorth

19-12-2016 18:35

Re: Russian Ambassador to Turkey shot dead in Ankara

Shot dead or wounded?

Cheers

Grim

Sirius

19-12-2016 19:01

Re: Russian Ambassador to Turkey shot dead in Ankara

The Russian's will get there revenge you can be sure of it and they don't care if they upset the libs when they do it.

heero_yuy

19-12-2016 19:10

Re: Russian Ambassador to Turkey shot dead in Ankara

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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth (Post 35876611)

Shot dead or wounded?

Cheers

Grim

Dead according to R4 PM programme.

Excrement hits air circulator.

Taf	19-12-2016 20:09

Re: Russian Ambassador to Turkey shot dead in Ankara

The ties between Turkey and Russia were only just starting to heal after the Turks shot down a Russian aircraft.

Osem	19-12-2016 20:30

Re: Russian Ambassador to Turkey shot dead in Ankara

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35876624)

Dead according to R4 PM programme.

Excrement hits air circulator.

Yes he'd already been pronounced dead when I was posting but the BBC report linked to hadn't been updated at that time.

Russia will reap what it has sown and it'll be interesting to see if Syria turns into their Iraq in that respect. I dare say Putin cares more about Russia's influence in the region than those who'll be the collateral damage at payback time.

Kabaal

19-12-2016 20:31

Re: Russian Ambassador to Turkey shot dead in Ankara

It's bad enough that it happened but the fact it was a policeman who did it is going to cause even more problems.

Damien

19-12-2016 20:33

Re: Russian Ambassador to Turkey shot dead in Ankara

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Originally Posted by Taf (Post 35876633)

The ties between Turkey and Russia were only just starting to heal after the Turks shot down a Russian aircraft.

I don't think it's going to kick off between Russia and Turkey. This was the action of a terrorist not of Turkey. The victims are Russia and Turkey. Plus I think it's more useful to Russia to publicly make that distinction.

Osem	19-12-2016 20:38

Re: Russian Ambassador to Turkey shot dead in Ankara

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Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35876642)

For now, however in the longer term it'll depend on how successful Erdogan is in preventing more attacks on Russians and their interests in Turkey. I don't envisage Russian conflict with a Nato country but do feel it's highly likely that relations with Turkey will suffer unless this turns out to be an isolated incident.

God forbid it's an ArchDuke Ferdinand moment... :erm:

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