Russian Ambassador to Turkey assassinated

[RogueBeaver]

Breaking. Turkish media reporting he's seriously wounded.

[The Other Castro]

Allegedly by a radical Islamist who purportedly shouted "Aleppo!", according to Politics1.

Ragıp Soylu ‏@ragipsoylu  9m9 minutes ago
This was a first event attended by Russian Ambassador following the rapprochement. The gunman said, "we die in Aleppo, you die here"

[RogueBeaver]

Assassin is dead. https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/810890576686182400

[RogueBeaver]

Turkish media reporting ambassador dead. https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/810890978877931521

[The Other Castro]

Wow.

[RogueBeaver]

Photo of the assassin. Apparently flashed an Islamist sign before being killed. Spoke both Turkish and Russian. https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister/status/810891432634490880

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Great, just we need now...

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Muh Syrian rebels!

[RogueBeaver]

Assassin was apparently part of the security detail. Earlier reports said he had a police ID.

[Beet]

Today I'm glad the US isn't involved in the Syrian war.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Uh, well, what goes around comes around, I guess.

I'm too apathetic to care, actually.

[RogueBeaver]

Assassin has been ID'd. Cop from an Ankara SpecOps squad.

[Wiz in Wis]

Assassin has been ID'd. Cop from an Ankara SpecOps squad.

Welp. Erdogan is in a world of hurt with Moscow now.

[Mopsus]

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Well this could end up going badly.

[KingSweden]

Well this could end up going badly.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Uh, well, what goes around comes around, I guess.

I'm too apathetic to care, actually.

Yes, hopefully Aleppo will literally not exist on the map by the end of the week.

[America Needs R'hllor]

Uh, well, what goes around comes around, I guess.

I'm too apathetic to care, actually.

Yes, hopefully Aleppo will literally not exist on the map by the end of the week.

That's a horrifying thing to say. Those are human beings, children, men, and women, and whether you like admitting it or not, Assad, supported by Putin, is butchering them. They're both mass murderers, cruel and with no regard to human life.

Nevertheless, a cycle of violence is never good, and murder is not the answer. RIP.

[Sir Mohamed]

Terrible. RIP to the ambassador and may god bless him and his family.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

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[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Video of the incident (Trigger warning: violence, obviously)

[Frodo]

Breaking. Turkish media reporting he's seriously wounded.

Your thread-header is correct -according to Hurriyet, he is indeed dead:

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[parochial boy]

Uh, well, what goes around comes around, I guess.

I'm too apathetic to care, actually.

Yes, hopefully Aleppo will literally not exist on the map by the end of the week.

Hang on, is advocating genocide like this considered acceptable?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Uh, well, what goes around comes around, I guess.

I'm too apathetic to care, actually.

Yes, hopefully Aleppo will literally not exist on the map by the end of the week.

That's a horrifying thing to say. Those are human beings, children, men, and women, and whether you like admitting it or not, Assad, supported by Putin, is butchering them. They're both mass murderers, cruel and with no regard to human life.

Nevertheless, a cycle of violence is never good, and murder is not the answer. RIP.

You're appealing to a Trump-cultist's reasoning ability and human decency. There's no a bigger waste of time and effort in the history of the world.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Uh, well, what goes around comes around, I guess.

I'm too apathetic to care, actually.

Yes, hopefully Aleppo will literally not exist on the map by the end of the week.

Hang on, is advocating genocide like this considered acceptable?

I dunno. Is it ok to voice support for Al Qaida "moderate rebels" here?

I've seen the video. The gunman hovered over the body for a period long enough for the security on hand to have taken him into custody. There was no reason to riddle him with holes. He was killed to keep him quiet.