Expert: Russian Ambassador assassination in Turkey shaped by  geopolitical arena

ArmInfo. Analysing the assassination of Russian Ambassador in Turkey, it is very important to define the arena it happened at. I think it was geopolitical,  Hrachya Arzoumanyan, the Ashkhar Strategic Research Center director, military and national security expert shared his opinion with ArmInfo. 

On December 19 Russia's Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov  was shot  dead at an art gallery in the Turkish capital on Monday. The gunman  was an off-duty policeman Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, who opened fire  at an art gallery in Ankara as Andrei Karlov was making a  speech.   After which the gunman was shot down by Turkish policemen.  Russian  operative group on investigation, comprising 18 members, left  for  Turkey.  

"In this respect there is no option to decrease the level of tragedy  happened. And there is no sense also in analyzing and discussing  tools like terrorism etc. In this case we faced a  special operation,   with a perfect "picture" as an important integral element. To me,  Turkish special forces participated in preparation of this  assassination," Arzumanyan mentioned. 

According to estimations of the expert, if everything that happened  is just a "black swan" for Russia ( a study theory on  hard-to-forecast  events), that means Moscow loses capability to  conduct geopolitical games, and shapes the options of a lost game. 

Arzumanyan mentions also that, if it is a geopolitical arena and a  big game, it would be better to remind and to understand the  impossibility of Russian-Turkish alliance by default. All the attempt  to create such an alliance will bring down one of these two  countries. 

 "Russia-Iran-Turkey  tripartite alliance being shaped, of course  causes many ideas, but it is likely being impossible as well. And  this is a situation, when Russia has to think over its next step when  the checkmate  is already made. It is also an effective policy, if  appropriate resources are available," the expert summarized.