The relationship between the two nations had improved significantly this year, enabling them to work together to secure a ceasefire in Aleppo.
Just after Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, addressed a small crowd at a photography exhibition on Monday night in the capital Ankara, a smartly dressed man fired into the air, before putting a bullet in Karlov’s back. Moments before he had been talking about the beautiful geography of his country, then in front of cameras, his assassin was warning the world about the consequences of “forgetting about Aleppo… forgetting about Syria”. The man in the …read more
Source: New Statesman
