{"id":69473,"date":"2016-12-19T15:35:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T20:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69473"},"modified":"2016-12-19T15:40:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T20:40:42","slug":"russia-s-ambassador-to-turkey-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69473","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217; s ambassador to Turkey murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=69474\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69474\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Andrey-Karlov-500x331.jpg\" alt=\"Andrey Karlov\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-69474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Andrey-Karlov-500x331.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Andrey-Karlov-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Andrey-Karlov-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Andrey-Karlov.jpg 1075w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrey Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey was murdered by a gunman at a photo exhibit today. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/russian-ambassador-turkey-attacked-gunman\/story?id=44282679\">ABC News<\/a>, he had a message for us;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDon\u2019t forget Aleppo, don\u2019t forget Syria. Don\u2019t forget Aleppo, don\u2019t forget Syria,&#8221; the gunman yelled in Arabic during the attack. &#8220;Until these places are safe you will not taste any safety either.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a disturbing video of the shooting;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1054481034666933%2Fvideos%2F1166695163445519%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/12\/19\/russias-ambassador-turkey-shot-assassination-attempt1\/\">UK&#8217;s Telegraph<\/a> says that the shooter was a Turkish police officer.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey and Russia have been trying to evacuate civilians from Aleppo, Syria but the last two days, convoys were attacked by ISIS seriously hindering those evacuations. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/19\/world\/middleeast\/aleppo-evacuations-syria.html?_r=0\">New York Times<\/a> reports that the UN has voted to send monitors to Aleppo to report back to the UN on the progress there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that the Russians won&#8217;t be excusing the gunman&#8217;s behavior with tales of a video, nor will they be asking &#8220;what difference does it make&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrey Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey was murdered by a gunman at a photo exhibit &hellip; <a title=\"Russia&#8217; s ambassador to Turkey murdered\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69473\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russia&#8217; s ambassador to Turkey murdered<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}