The Turkish policeman who murdered Russia’s ambassador to Ankara provided security to Turkey's president multiple times in the run up to Monday's assassination, it has bean claimed.

Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, served on police details backing up Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s personal body guards eight times since the failed military coup that rocked Turkey in July, Abdülkadir Selvi, a columnist known for his close ties to the government, wrote in Hurriyet on Wednesday.

Alintas, who served on an elite Ankara riot unit for two and a half years, was part of the second tier of security at those events.

He was reported to have served on Mr Erdogan’s security detail twice in 2014 and 2015.

Altintas shouted “Allahu Akbar” and “don't forget Aleppo” after he shot Andrey Karlov, Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, on Monday.