The US State Department is warning American citizens to avoid the country’s embassy in Turkey amid reports of a shooting in the area. The “ongoing security incident” comes about two hours after the Russian ambassador to Turkey was assassinated in the capital.
The Russian envoy to Turkey was shot dead by a gunman who stormed a building where the official was attending a Russian photo exhibition, the Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed. The ambassador, Andrey Karlov, was first injured after he was about to deliver a speech on the opening of the exhibition ...
