News: Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot in Ankara

Sarajevo anyone?

 

And he did not kill him? WTF? It looks like if he wanted him dead he could have done it.

I guess the ambassador was very smart and very good at playing dead. Good for him, hopefully he survives.

 

Several sources say he is in fact dead

 

UPDATE: The gunman shouted "we die in Aleppo, you die here" as he shot the Russian ambassador 5 times, he was then killed by security forces

 

Word is he's dead. That's f'ed up, this could spark something far bigger.

 

maybe it's another Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria... in 1914. when first WW started.?!

 

Russia already bombing the shit out of the rebels in Syria. What else is going to happen?

 

Benghazi showed us killing Ambassadors is not serious biz.

 

It was a false flag. Duh.

 

I've seen several people in comments sections claiming that it's fake: no blood visible in photos, he is shot from behind and falls on his back, etc.

Anyway, what was the over-under on this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-a-crisis-for-erdogan/?utm_term=.91bb05507fc2

At home, Erdogan's allies are already pinning the blame on the national bete noir, Fethullah Gulen, an aging Turkish cleric living in exile in the United States who is accused by Ankara of being the mastermind behind the failed coup attempt in July. A statement by the country's prime minister connected the assault to "dark forces," a conspiratorial gesture long deployed by government officials.

"Ankara's best exit here is to pin this on Gulenists, as they did with the Russian jet downing," said Sazak, referring to an episode last year when Turkish forces shot down a Russian fighter jet conducting sorties over Syria.
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Gulen lives about thirty miles from me. I'll post if I hear Russian bombers or fighter jets overhead.

Speaking of false flags, the article DOES point out that this puts Erdogan at a serious disadvantage in ongoing negotiations with Putin.