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THE assassinated Russian ambassador to Turkey was buried in Moscow yesterday.
Andrei Karlov’s funeral followed a remembrance ceremony for Russian Foreign Ministry officials and MPs, who laid flowers by his open casket at the ministry building.
Investigations by Turkish and Russian police are ongoing in Ankara, where Mr Karlov was shot dead at the opening of a photography exhibition.
The man who shot him was 22-year-old off-duty riot policeman Mevlut Mert Altintas, who was killed by other officers shortly afterwards.
His first words after shooting Mr Karlov referenced those “who give Mohammed our allegiance for jihad.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed yesterday that US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen was to blame for the killing.
But since Mr Erdogan blames nearly everything that goes wrong in Turkey on either Mr Gulen or the country’s oppressed Kurdish minority, it’s not clear how seriously the charge is meant.
