iStock/Thinkstock(ANKARA, Turkey) — A team of 18 investigators from Moscow arrived Tuesday morning in Turkey’s capital of Ankara to review and examine the site where Russia’s envoy to Turkey was shot dead, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters.
The team of investigators expected to visit the site includes a prosecutor, a psychiatrist, several security experts and a number of autopsy specialists.
Ambassador Andrey Karlov was killed on Monday at the Museum of Modern Art in Ankara. The attack in one of the museum’s art galleries was captured on camera.
The suspect, identified as Mevlut Mert Altintas, was then killed by the Turkish anti-terror police. Altintas was a member of the riot police and he had used his police ID card to enter the building before the shooting, according to Interior Ministry sources.
After the shooting, the gunman yelled in Turkish: “Allahu akhbar” (“God is greatest.”)
“Don’t forget Aleppo, don’t forget Syria. Don’t forget Aleppo, don’t forget Syria. Until these places are safe you will not taste any safety either,” he announced to bystanders.
Police say they are investigating many leads and have taken into custody at least seven people for questioning, including members of Altintas’ family.
On Tuesday, groups of diplomatic well-wishers visited the Russian embassy in Ankara, offering condolences.
Turkey’s foreign minister said the street where the Russian embassy is located will be re-named after the slain ambassador.
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