Assassin of Russian ambassador had guarded Turkey’s President Erdogan

Mevlut Mert Altintas. /AP

 

The assassin who gunned down Russia’s ambassador to Turkey had served on security details to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan several times prior to the Dec. 19 assassination of Andrei Karlov.

Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, served on police details backing up Erdogan’s personal body guards eight times since the July 15 failed military coup in Turkey, according to a Hurriyet report on Dec. 21. Continue reading

INCITING TERROR: ISIS spreads locations of Russian embassies online to incite more attacks… as panicky Putin boosts security after shock slaughter of ambassador

Remember what White House spokesman John Kirby said in a previous post?

Here’s a refresher:

We’ll let you connect the dots on what might be happening.

 

ISIS are spreading the locations of Russian embassies in a sick bid to incite more attacks on officials.

Jihadis disseminated a PDF containing the addresses and contact information of Russian embassies following the shock slaughter of Moscow’s envoy to Ankara and the attack on a bustling Christmas market in Berlin on Monday. Continue reading