Andrey Karlov

Istanbul police have caught a key suspect who played a role along with her husband, a key figure of the FETÖ terrorist organization, in the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Ankara in 2016.

The Ankara prosecutor's office on March 5 sought life imprisonment for defendants accused of taking part in the assassination of a former Russian ambassador to Turkey in 2016, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

The assassination of Russia's ambassador to Turkey in 2016 sought to sabotage the normalization of ties between the two countries as well as a cooperation deal struck in 2001, an expert told Anadolu Agency.

An indictment on the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov has been completed and sent to the prosecutor’s office.

New photos showing Turkish policeman Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş hours before he killed Andrey Karlov, Russia's ambassador to Ankara, have been revealed. 

One more person was arrested in connection with the assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov by an Ankara court order on Aug. 13.

A foreign cryptography expert hired by the Ankara Prosecutor's Office has reportedly failed to crack the phone used by the assassin of the late Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, who was killed in Ankara in December 2016. 

A Russian intelligence team was unable to crack the phone of Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, the assassin who in late 2016 shot dead former Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, daily Hürriyet reported on March 9.

A former employee of Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) was arrested late on Jan. 12 over the assassination of former Russian envoy Andrey Karlov.

A court has arrested the organizer of a photograph exhibition where a gunman shot dead Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov in Ankara in December 2016, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.