Assassination of Andrei Karlov

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will visit Turkey on March 30, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said late on March 16. 

Tillerson's visit will be the highest level talks with a senior official from the new U.S. administration since President Donald Trump took office in January, as Ankara hopes to have better relations with the White House. 

It goes without saying that every Western diplomatic mission in Turkey must have reviewed security measures around their compounds - not only after intensified threats from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) but also after the failed July 15 coup, which saw a rise in anti-Western feelings here. 

Associated Press photographer Burhan Özbilici has won the 2017 World Press Photo competition for his image of a gun-wielding off-duty Turkish police officer standing over the body of Russia's ambassador Andrei Karlov, whom he had just fatally shot.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is planning to pay a visit to Moscow next month to meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, Turkish Ambassador to Russia Hüseyin Diriöz said Feb. 3.

Very important evidence has been accessed during the interrogation of Reina nightclub murderer Abdulkadir Masharipov, who was caught by Istanbul police on Jan. 16. His capture alive helped give information about several of his connections.

Turkey will prepare a new list about the users of the Bylock mobile messaging application whose users are suspected of being linked to the Gülen network, after Ankara secured cooperation with Lithuania, where the server of the app is based, upon Russian initiatives. 

One police officer was arrested late on Jan. 19 over the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, who was killed on Dec. 19, 2016 in the capital Ankara. 

Two suspects, including one police officer, were arrested on Jan. 19 in connection to the assassination of Andrey Karlov, Russia's ambassador to Turkey, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The organizer of the photography exhibition where Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov was assassinated has been detained along with an Ankara police officer, almost a month after the killing. 

The assassin of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, was buried in the cemetery of the nameless in Ankara on Jan. 13, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.