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Altintas reportedly worked as a bodyguard in several of Turkishpresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rallies, raising a simple question: Why would ...
Turkish assassin of Russian Ambassador 'reportedly worked as a bodyguard in several of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rallies, raising a simple question: Why would ...'
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The shooter has been identified as 22-year-old Mevlut Mert Altintas, a Turkish police officer who has allegedly been on the force for two and a half years. He was killed after fulminating and pacing around the site of the killing uninterrupted for 15 minutes.
Was Altintas assigned to a security detail for the Russian ambassador, an obvious target after fierce protests led by extremists waving Al Qaeda flags surrounded the Russian consulate in Istanbul? How was this character hired by the police in the first place, and did he enjoy any relationship to the government of Erdogan, which has pumped immense amounts of weapons and funding to extremist rebel factions in Syria?
The Turkish government has attempted to pin the blame on its exiled arch adversary Fetullah Gulen, claiming that Altintas was a member of Gulen’s FEPO cell. The mayor of Ankara, Melih Gokcek, has even suggested Altintas bellowed out Islamist slogans to implicate Erdogan’s conservative, Islamist-oriented Justice and Development Party, or AKP. Gulen, for his part, is a ferventopponent of Turkey's support for Islamist rebels in Syria.
Altintas reportedly worked as a bodyguard in several of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rallies, raising a simple question: Why would ...
The anti-riot cop who assassinated a top Russian diplomat in Turkey on Monday had apparently taken a leave of absence from the police department around the time of the attack, according to a published report.
Crazed gunman Mevlut Mert Altintas had been a police officer for 2½ years before unconfirmed reports say he was suspended for several weeks until mid-November due to suspected ties with terrorist plotters behind Turkey’s failed July coup,the BBC reported Tuesday.............
Both countries cast Monday’s attack — which occurred at an art gallery in the capital, Ankara — as an attempt to undermine a recent thawing of ties that have been strained by Syria’s civil war, where they back opposing sides.
The war, which has killed more than 300,000 people and created a power vacuum exploited by the Islamic State, reached a potential turning point last week when Syrian forces ended rebel resistance in the northern city of Aleppo.
Russia, an ally of President Bashar al-Assad, supported that advance with airstrikes.
Altintas, who also shouted slogans associated with Islamist militancy after shooting Karlov, was killed minutes later by members of Turkey’s special forces......................
One senior Turkish security official said investigators were focusing on whether Altintas had links to the US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for a failed July coup. Gulen has denied responsibility for the coup and Monday’s attack, and has condemned both events.
The slogans that Altintas shouted, which were captured on video and circulated widely on social media, suggested he was aligned to a radical Islamist ideology, rather than that of Gulen, who preaches a message of interfaith dialogue.
“Don’t forget Aleppo, don’t forget Syria. You will not be able to feel safe for as long as our districts are not safe. Only death can take me from here,” he shouted in Turkish.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that he and Russia’s Vladimir Putin had agreed in a telephone call that their cooperation in fighting terrorism should be even stronger after the killing.
Putin said it was aimed at derailing Russia’s attempts to find, with Iran and Turkey, a solution for the Syria crisis.
The countries’ foreign ministers were meeting on Tuesday..............
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