'Russia Through Turks' Eyes'
One killing and its backdrop of tension and violence
by Elliot Ackerman
Dec 20, 2016
3 minutes
Monday evening Andrey Karlov, the Russian Federation’s envoy to Turkey, was shot and killed at the opening of a photography exhibit at the Contemporary Arts Center in the capital, Ankara. The exhibit was entitled “Russia through Turks’ Eyes.” In a photograph taken of Karlov only moments before his assassination, he stands behind a lectern and, just out of frame and slightly out of focus to his right, is the man the government of being his assassin, the 22-year-old Turkish police officer Mevlut
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