EghtesadOnline: A bus carrying soldiers blown up in a central Turkish city on Saturday. Two days later, Russia’s ambassador shot dead in Ankara near the parliament building bombed by warplanes during July’s botched coup.
EghtesadOnline: Turkish police detained six people over the killing of the Russian ambassador, state media said on Tuesday, widening a probe to relatives of the off-duty policeman who shouted "Don't forget Aleppo!" as he gunned the envoy down.
EghtesadOnline: Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Gholamali Khoshroo on Monday slammed assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey.
EghtesadOnline: Iran's embassy in Turkey declared that the Iranian consulate generals in Istanbul, Erzurum and Trabzon are closed on Tuesday (December 20).
EghtesadOnline: Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi on Monday strongly condemned assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey describing it as an “act of evil.”
EghtesadOnline: The assassination of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey won’t derail the improvement in relations between the two countries since a crisis over the war in Syria a year ago, according to politicians and analysts in Moscow.
EghtesadOnline: Russia’s ambassador was shot dead in the Turkish capital on Monday in an assassination apparently linked to Syria’s civil war, heightening tensions over a conflict that’s drawn in almost all the region’s main powers.