Andrei Karlov

A former policeman has been arrested over the 2016 assassination of Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andrei Karlov, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported on July 26.

A former Turkish civil servant and suspected senior member of the Gülen movement was detained on April 5 in connection with a case concerning the 2016 assassination of Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andrei Karlov. 

A Russian intelligence team was unable to crack the phone of Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, the assassin who in late 2016 shot dead former Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, daily Hürriyet reported on March 9.

A former employee of Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) was arrested late on Jan. 12 over the assassination of former Russian envoy Andrey Karlov.

A court has arrested the organizer of a photograph exhibition where a gunman shot dead Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov in Ankara in December 2016, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

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.

Former Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, who was assassinated in Ankara last year by a police officer, was commemorated in the first anniversary of his death.

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.

A court in Ankara on Dec. 14 ruled for the arrest of a former police officer who was dismissed from his post over alleged links to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), as a part of an investigation into the murder of Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andrey Karlov last year, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.