The Russian ambassador to Turkey has been shot dead by a police officer in an Ankara art gallery on Monday night. Andrei Karlov was several minutes into making a speech when he was killed by Mevlut Mert Altıntas. Footage taken moments after the shooting shows the gunman, who was later killed by special forces, shouting ‘Don’t forget Aleppo. Don’t forget Syria’.

Russian ambassador to Turkey killed in Ankara shooting