Andrey Karlov

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has instructed authorities to “do whatever is required” to break into the mobile phone of Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, the police officer who assassinated Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov last year.

Former Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, who was assassinated in Ankara last year by a police officer, was commemorated in the first anniversary of his death.

Files on a hard disk belonging to police officer Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, who assassinated Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov in Ankara in December 2016, have been cracked by the Russian intelligence service, according to the latest findings in the investigation into the killing.

Social media posts and e-mails sent by police officer Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, who assassinated Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov in December 2016, were deleted with the help of a virtual computer, according to the latest findings in the investigation into the killing.

A court in Ankara on Dec. 14 ruled for the arrest of a former police officer who was dismissed from his post over alleged links to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), as a part of an investigation into the murder of Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andrey Karlov last year, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The wish of the late Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov, assassinated in Ankara in December 2016, has been realized with the twinning of a Turkish and Russian city on Nov. 29.

The head of a Turkish media group was arrested late on Nov. 24 in the capital Ankara for his alleged involvement in the assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov

The Russian Embassy in Ankara erected a monument for former Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, who was assassinated on Dec. 19 last year.

Russia’s ambassador to Sudan was found dead in the swimming pool of his Khartoum residence, officials have said.

He is the sixth senior Russian diplomat to have died suddenly overseas since last year’s US election.

Alexey Yerkhov, the new Russian ambassador to Ankara who replaced his murdered predecessor Andrey Karlov, has said he feels no security concerns in the country.