Gunman Kills Russian Ambassador to Turkey in Ankara <br /> <br />The Russian ambassador to Turkey has been shot dead by a police officer who shouted “Don’t forget Aleppo” as he pulled the trigger. <br /> <br />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. <br /> <br />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. <br /> <br />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.” <br /> <br />He also shouted in Arabic: “We are the one who pledged allegiance to Muhammad, to wage jihad.” <br /> <br />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. <br /> <br />“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. <br /> <br />Putin said: “There can be only one answer to this - stepping up the fight against terrorism, and the bandits will feel this.” <br /> <br />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. <br /> <br />Turkish special forces surrounded the gallery and killed the attacker. Photographs from the aftermath appeared to show him lying dead on the floor. Three other people were wounded. <br /> <br />Follow Us For More Videos <br />www.dailymotion.com/Viralkardiya
