The video footage of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov’s assassination by a Turkish policeman in Ankara shows the gunman shouting ‘Don’t forget Aleppo’ and ‘Don’t forget Syria’.
The Ambassador was shot in the back while giving a speech at an art gallery. He fell immediately. The gunman emerged from behind wearing black suit and tie and started shouting at his full throat. He first shouted in Arabic and then turned to Turkish.
According to The New York Times, in Arabic, he shouted, “God is great! Those who pledged allegiance to Muhammad for jihad. God is great!"
Then in Turkish, he said, "Don’t forget Aleppo, don’t forget Syria! Step back! Step back! Only death can take me from here.”
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Hasim Kilic, a Turkish photographer for the Hurriyet news organization who witnessed the attack, said in a telephone interview to The New York Times that the gunman had fired seven shots at the ambassador — “four from behind, three while the body was on the ground.”
Mr. Kilic, who was crouched behind a cocktail table about 12 feet away, said the gunman had ordered everyone else out and refused a security guard’s request to drop his weapon. “Call the police, and I will die here,” Mr. Kilic quoted the assailant as saying.
The incident has come afer days of protest in Turkey over Russia's alleged role in the human rights violations in Syria.
