The President of Turkey, Tayyip-Erdogan has described the killing of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey on Monday as an act of terrorism.
In a phone conversation with Vladimir Putin, Tayyip-Erdogan said: “We qualify what happened as a terrorist act.
“The murderers will be punished. Today this issue will be raised at the UN Security Council. Terrorism will not win out.”
The gunman, identified by the Ankara mayor as a Turkish policeman, shot the ambassador at an Ankara art exhibition, shouting “Aleppo” and “revenge.”
The Kremlin said that President Vladimir Putin had been informed.
The incident came after days of protests in Turkey over Russia’s role in Syria, although Moscow and Ankara are now working closely together to evacuate citizens from the battered city of Aleppo. [myad]
