ArmInfo. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan sent a letter of condolences to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on the barbaric assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov.
The press office of the Armenian President reports that Serzh Sargsyan strongly condemned this act of terror, expressed condolences to the family and friends of the Ambassador, to the diplomatic corps of the Russian Federation, and the people of Russia. To note, Russia's Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was shot dead at an art gallery in the Turkish capital on Monday by an assassin who told him: "We die in Aleppo, you die here." The gunman - an off-duty policeman Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22 - opened fire at an art gallery in Ankara as Andrei Karlov was making a speech, then stood triumphantly over his body shouting "revenge for Syria and Aleppo". Russia has described this as a terrorist act.