Top official:Assassination of ambassador – vicious form of terrorism
By Trend
Assassination of ambassador is one of the most vicious forms of
terrorism, Novruz Mammadov, deputy head of Azerbaijani presidential
administration, chief of the administration's foreign relations
department, has tweeted.
Mammadov’s tweets came in condemnation of the assassination of
Russia’s Ambassador in Turkey Andrey Karlov in a terrorist attack
on December 19.
“Assassination of Russia's Ambassador deserves strongest of condemnation! There can be no justification to this bloody terrorist act!,” said Mammadov in another tweet.
Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov died after he was
badly wounded in an armed assault in Ankara Dec. 19, Turkish
newspaper Milliyet reported.
The ambassador was taken to a hospital, but died there.
The assailant was killed in an ensuing police operation.
The attack on the ambassador was carried out when Karlov was on the podium in order to deliver a speech at a photo exhibition in the Ankara Center for Contemporary Art.
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