Russian ambassador to Turkey shot dead in Ankara art gallery

[hobbits_friend]

Police have reportedly killed gunman who fired at least eight times while Andrei Karlov was giving speech

The Russian ambassador to Ankara has been killed in a gun attack at an art gallery in the Turkish capital, Russia’s foreign ministry confirmed. Reports suggested the gunman was a Turkish riot police officer.

Andrei Karlov was attending the

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[eveofrevolution]

[yamamanama]

The pretext for the attacks was the assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Polish Jew living in Paris. Kristallnacht was followed by additional economic and political persecution of Jews, and it is viewed by historians as part of Nazi Germany's broader racial policy, and the beginning of the Final Solution and The Holocaust.

I hope this doesn't give Putin's 5th column an impetus to start anything similar.

[shahar]

I don't see this ending well.