Via Daily Mail:
Turkey’s interior minister says that the gunman who assassinated Russia’s ambassador to Turkey was a policeman.
Suleyman Soylu said that the gunman was working for the riot police squad in Ankara for the past two-and-a-half years.He identified the attacker as Mevlut Mert Altintas, born in 1994.
Altintas’s father Esrafil, mother Hamidiye, and his sister, Seher Ozeroglu, who works in a clothes shop, were arrested in his hometown of Soke in Aydin, a province on western Turkey’s Aegean coast.
It is claimed he was active in his youth with President Erdogan’s AKP party and may have been linked with the Al Nusra Front, an affiliate of Al Qaeda.
One witness said Altintas was dressed smartly in a black suit and tie and stood behind the ambassador as he made his speech.
The witness added: ‘He took out his gun and shot the ambassador from behind. We saw him lying on the floor and then we ran out.’