Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said the killer of Russia's ambassador to Turkey was a member of the group of Fethullah Gulen, his longtime rival who is blamed for the July 15 coup as well, AFP reports.
Off-duty Turkish policeman Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, fired nine bullets at the ambassador, Andrei Karlov, at an art gallery in Ankara on Monday before he himself was killed by police in a shootout.
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