Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş

Istanbul police have caught a key suspect who played a role along with her husband, a key figure of the FETÖ terrorist organization, in the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Ankara in 2016.

A Turkish court on April 18 concluded its reasoned decision on the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andrey Karlov.

In a detailed verdict, the court reasoned that Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, an off-duty police officer who killed the ambassador in 2016 at a time of the reconciliation of Turkish-Russian relations, was a secret member of FETÖ.

A Turkish court on March 9 sentenced five suspects to life in jail over the 2016 murder of Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov in Ankara, state news agency Anadolu reported.

Six other suspects were acquitted while seven others were convicted of membership of an armed terrorist group.

The Ankara prosecutor's office on March 5 sought life imprisonment for defendants accused of taking part in the assassination of a former Russian ambassador to Turkey in 2016, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

The assassination of Russia's ambassador to Turkey in 2016 sought to sabotage the normalization of ties between the two countries as well as a cooperation deal struck in 2001, an expert told Anadolu Agency.

New photos showing Turkish policeman Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş hours before he killed Andrey Karlov, Russia's ambassador to Ankara, have been revealed. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has instructed authorities to “do whatever is required” to break into the mobile phone of Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, the police officer who assassinated Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov last year.

Files on a hard disk belonging to police officer Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, who assassinated Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov in Ankara in December 2016, have been cracked by the Russian intelligence service, according to the latest findings in the investigation into the killing.

Social media posts and e-mails sent by police officer Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, who assassinated Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov in December 2016, were deleted with the help of a virtual computer, according to the latest findings in the investigation into the killing.

Russia's new ambassador to Turkey, Aleksey Yerhov, presented his letter of credentials to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on July 28. 

In May, Yerhov was appointed Russia's new ambassador to Ankara five months after the assassination of former envoy Andrey Karlov.

Yerhov is the former consul general in Istanbul.