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The Turkish and Russian defense ministers discussed Turkey's ongoing operation into Syria and the evacuations from Aleppo on Dec. 20, in a meeting that came just one day after Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov was shot dead in Ankara. 

Turkey said it strongly condemned the killing of Russia's Ambassador to Ankara, Andrey Karlov as a result of an armed attack vowing to arrest perpetrators and to bring them before the justice. 

Russia's ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, was assassinated at an art exhibition in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Dec. 19, Russia and Turkey have confirmed.

Karlov was shot with a gun while making a speech at a photography exhibition in the Turkish capital, the Russian Embassy said, adding that it believed that it was a radical Islamist attack.

The United States defense secretary Ashton Carter has thanked his Turkish counterpart Fikri Işık for Turkey's contribution to the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

A total of 22,085 Turkish military personnel have been dismissed for their links to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), Defense Minister Fikri Işık said on Dec. 10. Of that number, 16,409 were military school students, Işık said during 2017 budget talks at parliament.  
      

The Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Işık has reviewed a test for Turkey-made medium-altitude air defense missile Hisar-O which is expected to meet the needs of the Turkish Land Forces Command.         

"We have many systems developed by Roketsan and Havelsan corporations," Işık told the project's engineers after a test was conducted in the Central Anatolian province of Aksaray. 

Turkish Defense Minister has condemned Austria's arms embargo on Turkey, saying that the decision will fuel motivation in Turkish industry to produce indigenous arms. 

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said an attack by the Syrian regime that killed three Turkish troops in northern Syria will "not be left unanswered," vowing that the Turkish army's determination to "clear the area of terrorists is unaffected by the move."

Western countries should reject the asylum requests of suspected Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) members, Defense Minister Fikri Işık said at a Nov. 21 meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, sources familiar with the meeting told the Hürriyet Daily News. 

Turkish defense company Roketsan delivered the 303 mm Guided Missile System, also known as KASIRGA (Hurricane), to the Turkish military at a ceremony held in the capital Ankara on Nov. 16