Andrei Karlov News
Russia staged a sombre funeral ceremony on Thursday for Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey who was shot dead in Ankara by a man who shouted "Allahu Akbar" and "Don`t forget Aleppo".
Turkish authorities on Thursday released six close relatives of the assassin of the Russian ambassador to Ankara after holding them for almost three days for questioning in the wake of the killing, state media said on Thursday.
The spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday refused to offer theories behind Monday's assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov.
President Vladimir Putin will attend as Russia buries slain ambassador Andrei Karlov tomorrow, the Kremlin said, days after he was gunned down in Ankara by a Turkish policeman.
A Russian plane carrying the body of the ambassador assassinated in Turkey landed on Tuesday in Moscow, where he was to be honoured in a ceremony, news agencies said.
Russian investigators on Tuesday arrived in Turkey to help probe the killing of the country`s ambassador in Ankara, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
Andrei Karlov was shot dead by a Turkish gunman at an art exhibition in Ankara last evening.
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