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2019-01-09 The Grand Turk

Turkey trial to open into Russian ambassador's 2016 killing

[Rudaw] Twenty-eight suspects were due to go on trial Tuesday over the liquidation of the Russian ambassador two years ago, including a US-based Moslem preacher blamed by Ankara for a failed coup the same year.

Andrei Karlov, 62, was rubbed out by an off-duty ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish policeman at a photo exhibition in Ankara on December 19, 2016, in a shock attack that was captured on camera by photographers attending the event.

The 22-year-old gunman, Mevlut Mert Altintas, shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) and "Don't forget Aleppo", vowing that those responsible for events in Syria would be held accountable.

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Altintas was killed shortly after by members of the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish special forces.

~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
trial to open into Russian ambassador's 2016 killing with the intention of causing terror", according to the indictment. The other 12 were charged with "being a member of a terror organization".

Thirteen are currently in pre-trial detention, while it is prosecuting others in absentia.

Those not in Turkey include Fethullah Gülen

... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
, a US-based Islamic preacher seen as an arch foe of President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First

... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
and who Ankara blames for the July 2016 coup attempt.

Gulen has denied links to both the failed coup and the murder.

~~Ottoman~~ Turkish officials have alleged that Gulen's movement organised the murder of Karlov, a married father-of-one, to sow "chaos".

Turkey refers to the organization as the "Fetullah Terrorist Organisation" (FETO) but followers say it is peaceful, promoting secular education.

Another of the suspects named is Serif Ali Tekalan, who headed a university linked to Gulen in Istanbul and now heads the Texas-based North American University (NAU).

'Attack' on Turkey-Russia ties
The prosecutor is seeking a variety of penalties for the suspects, including aggravated life sentences, which have replaced the death penalty

in Turkey and carry harsher conditions than normal life imprisonment convictions.

The indictment says the Gulen movement plotted the murder of Karlov, who had been appointed as ambassador in 2013, to "break off bilateral relations" between Turkey and Russia and bring them to the brink of "hot war".

The Kremlin had previously warned against rushing to any assumptions.

Although Moscow does not repeat the Gulen claims, Selim Koru, a Black Sea Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute think tank noted in a report late last year that Russia sent Sherlocks and "if they had different findings, they didn't say".

Turkey and Russia had a dramatic falling out in November 2015 after a ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish fighter jet shot down a Russian warplane along the Syrian border.

But by the summer of 2016 relations had improved, with Russian President Vladimir Putin

...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
and Erdogan keen to show they are working together to find a solution to the Syrian conflict despite being on opposing sides of the war.

Tens of thousands of people have been enjugged
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
over alleged links to Gulen since 2016 in a crackdown criticised by human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
groups and Ankara's Western allies.

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