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Black swan from Ankara
The murder of the Russian ambassador to Turkey and the foreboding of a new war
As a result of the wounds received during the attack in Ankara, Andrei Karlov’s ambassador died to Turkey. The attacker shot the ambassador in the back during his performance in the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Ankara, where the opening ceremony of the Russian Eyes of the Turks was held. The Russian Foreign Ministry has described the murder of Carlov as a “terrorist act”.
Today, during a public event in Ankara, an unknown person opened a chaotic fire. As a result of this terrorist act, Andrei Karlov, an ambassador of Russia to Turkey, died from a wound. A unique diplomat, a brilliant professional.
The crime should be investigated, criminals must be punished.
In social networks, many considered this event a logical consequence of Russian participation in the Syrian war.
The ambassador died. A small victorious war on a powder barrel.
The ambassador was killed in Turkey.
Not for everyone, war is happiness.
.... Barbaric bombing Aleppo had to end in something like that. Inevitably. There are thousands and thousands of those who want to kill “dear Russians” in Syria at all costs. Parents who lost their children who have lost their wives, husbands, parents, friends under Russian airstrikes ... They all have nothing more to lose.
Deep condolences to the family of the ambassador. He died at the post. So lead to the trouble of the game of autocrats in the war. https://t.co/nxzyfcwjmx
- Khodorkovsky Mikhail (@MICH261213) December 19, 2016
Putin begins wars, and the soldiers are killing, and now there are also diplomats. pic.twitter.com/nb3vibngby
- MUD ROSISI (@fake_midrf) December 19, 2016
Here is such a connection-between the war “somewhere” and the murder in the art gallery. At first, Putin calls the operation in Syria “the best teaching that you can imagine.” Then follows the explosion of an airplane with Russian tourists and the death of the military. Now - the murder of the Russian ambassador as a revenge for Aleppo. Hatred always returns with a boomerang. The question is so far only the exercises? Or I do not have enough imagination to imagine “something better”?
Another victim of the Putin aggressive foreign policy ... Everything is always returned by boomerang ...
The historical parallel, which is now on everyone's mouths - the murder of the author of "grief from the mind".
The previous time of the Russian ambassador at its post was killed on January 30, 1829 in Tehran. It was Alexander Griboedov.
- Rustem Adagamov (@adagamov) December 19, 2016
For the first time after Alexander Griboedov ...
The kingdom of heaven to the Russian ambassador to Karlov. Killed as Griboedov. Coincidence to almost details ...
Putin was supposed to go to the play “Woe from Wit” to the Maly Theater tonight. What a coincidence, however.
The sense of trouble is the most reliable - it did not deceive. The murder of the Russian ambassador to Turkey - in what sorrowful series of events will this crime arise? What is remembered?
-"What are you taking?" - "Griboeda."
For the murder of the Ambassador of Griboedov, the Persians gave the empire “Shah” to the empire. Judging by the latest statements, the Russian Federation will pay for the murder of Karlov.
- Sputnik & Pogrom (@sputnikipogrom) December 19, 2016
When Griboedov died, an ambassador to Persia (Iran), the Persians, as a sign of reconciliation, presented the richest gifts, including the famous Almaz Shah. But let's not confuse that Russian Empire and its greatness with Russia in its current state.
What do you think after today's murder of the ambassador will be presented by Türkiye as a sign of reconciliation? And also interesting, Lavrov is already preoccupied?
"So here it is, your victory,
Dawn of the long -awaited day ...
- Who is being taken there? - Griboeda!
- Who is the funeral? Me..."
(A. Galich)
Judging by the script, the directors are the same.
Come on, Lord.
The strange feeling that we live in the history of Fomenko. When everything is at the same time. Olympics either 80, or 36, a limited contingent of troops. Crimean company. Settings from the front to the censor.net. And in the ears the voice of Levitan. Griboyed is being taken ... But all living people. That is, they just were alive ...
Eternal memory.
Another event that is often recalled in connection with what happened is the murder of the Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo, which laid the foundation for the First World War.
Probably, the thought about shots in Sarajevo came to all the first to the head, right?
Only one question: is it already Sarajevo or not Sarajevo ??
The first place where I read this news was Figaro. I looked at the comments. Half - a comparison with a shot in Sarajevo. And in the FB there is also a lot of this. But then the murder is basically different.
Gavrila the principle - the only, one might say, turned out to be the winner in that war. His goal was to create a Republic of Yugoslavia, and now all the empires collapsed, the 1st war continued the 2nd, tens of millions of victims, and the SFRI arose and lasted quite a long time.
Then, with the murder of the Herzdukog, these were questions of honor - how to react Austria, what to do her ally of Germany, etc., and all the monarchs are distant or close relatives. Issues of another order are being resolved now. Which does not mean that this is not at least, it can be, everything can be, then everything also accidentally slipped around the principle, or principle, and the similarity of the general atmosphere since 1914 is also evident.
But for now - just condolences.
Most commentators are morally preparing for catastrophic consequences.
I’m afraid to even imagine how this tragedy will affect the “world order” in the very near future.
The ambassador was killed. Now it’s very bad.
The ambassador died. The shooter shouted "You in Syria are killing innocent people!" In short, full hello. I will not be surprised if the troops were introduced
The RF Ambassador was killed to Turkey. How fragile the modern world becomes ... completely, completely fragile
The terrorist killed the Russian ambassador in Ankara under the cries "Get out of Aleppo!" A hundred years ago, the beginning of World War I looked like that.
“We will not forget Aleppo, we will not forget Syria, while they are safe, we will not be safe. Who is responsible for this, will be punished!”, The killer shouted.
This is a “black swan”, an unpredictable factor that changes all the calculated geopolitical layouts. Who of the elites wants to continue the meaningless war, which can be a victim in which everyone, and not just yesterday's SLI? Who wants to become a new martyr for the regime? We ourselves ran into the trap of a large war, and now the main task of any politician, any citizen, by all means to pull the country out of there. Because further - a large, very big war.
There are more restrained forecasts.
I think that the murder of an ambassador in Turkey will become the main argument to strengthen the presence in Syria.
The ambassador himself is unconditionally sorry: the ambassadors are simply officials, nothing personal, just such a job.
You can’t call diplomatic work really safe. A list of attempts on Soviet and Russian diplomats since the 1920s to our time can be seen on the TASS website:
On May 10, 1923, in Lausanne / Switzerland / Soviet envoy Vaclav Vorovsky was killed by the former White Guard Maurice Konradi. Conradi and his accomplice Arkady Polunin were justified by jury. The diplomatic relations between the USSR and Switzerland were torn.
On February 5, 1926, in Latvia on the Moscow-Riga train, the Theodore Nette and Johann Mahmastal was attacked on Soviet diplomerers. In the shootout, Theodore Netta was killed. Two attackers, citizens of Lithuania of the Gavrilovichi brothers, were injured, later they were found dead.
On June 7, 1927, in Warsaw, the Soviet plenipotentiary in Poland P. Voykov was mortally wounded by the Polish subject of B. Koverda (he was sentenced to life imprisonment, however, on June 15, 1937 he was amnestied and released).
On December 13, 1927, during the civil war in China, the Soviet consulate in Kanton (Guangzhou) was defeated, the consulate and their families were arrested. On December 14, five Soviet diplomats - Vice -Consul A. Hassis, P. Makarov, V. Ukolov, K. Ivanov and F. Popov - were shot. On December 14, 1927, the USSR broke out diplomatic relations with China. <...>
On June 3, 2006, in Baghdad (Iraq), the car of the Russian embassy, in which five people were located, was blocked and attacked by militants in the El Mansur area near the building of the diplomatic mission. During the attack, the embassy employee Vitaly Titov died. Four Russians - the Third Secretary Fedor Zaitsev and employees of the embassy of Rinat Agliulin, Anatoly Smirnov and Oleg Fedoseev - extremists took away in an unknown direction. On June 26, 2006, it became known about the death of four Russian diplomats.
On June 23, 2007, Russian diplomat Vladimir Rashitko died near the capital of Burundi Buzhumbura as a result of shelling his cars by soldiers who guarded the checkpoint on the road.
On September 9, 2013, the first secretary of the Russian Embassy in Abkhazia Vice-Consul Dmitry Vishernev was killed in Sukhum. His wife, an employee of the Russian embassy, was seriously injured.
Commentators note that in the current situation, it was strange to supply Russia's ambassador to Turkey in Turkey.
It is strange and bad that the ambassador had no guard in Turkey, yet a difficult relationship has long been
Around the event multiply the theory of conspiracy.
Yes - this is a political shot. They shot on the eve of the start of negotiations in Astana on political settlement on Syria ... Someone really does not want this meeting ...
I repeat that the opponents of the meeting in Astana with the participation of the Russian Federation, Turkey, Damascus and the moderate opposition probably shot. If it takes place and it will be successful to resolve it. That would finally knock out the pro -American coalition from the process.
Well, as I said, we all relaxed too early. Our American partners do not lose time. Otherwise, who would provide the killer with a real police certificate?
Of course, the events are so that the version of Obama's farewell revenge begins to seem not crazy.
Everything is very small, very mean, very dirty. Not a blow of the superpower, but personally, coast in slippers.
(By the way, some miserable in the comments are rage, who do not like my words about the fact that in the Alliance of Moscow and Ankara this tragedy will affect positively.
I explain the miserable: not Erdogan killed the ambassador, but opposite his enemies, this murder is a challenge to Erdogan, who pushes him closer to Moscow and provokes to clean up the jihadist compote in Turkey, while being objectively guilty Erdogan, of course, will have to be reproduced and compensated. Well, the brutality of Washington will intensify).
The murder of our ambassador in Turkey is a provocation. The West is afraid of the friendship of Russia and Turkey. Deep condolences to the relatives and friends of Andrei Karlov ...
- Zhirinovsky V.V. (@Zhirinovskiy) December 19, 2016
Another such versions seem ridiculous.
We were hit in the back to quarrel us with the country that hit us in the back.
Gennady Zyuganov recalled the reaction to the murder of the US ambassador in Libya.
What will Gennady Zyuganov say today? pic.twitter.com/p6cxiggy13
- MUD ROSISI (@fake_midrf) December 19, 2016
Former US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaol, wrote on Twitter that the murder of Andrei Karlov "saddened and angry" him. "There can be no excuse for this terrorist act," he writes.
I am Saddened and Outraged by the Assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov. There is no Excuse for this Terrorist Act.
- Michael MCFAUL (@MCFAUL) December 19, 2016
In New York Times, the death of the Russian ambassador is commented as follows :
The murder immediately translated to a crisis level of relations between Turkey and Russia, already aggravated due to a protracted Syrian conflict on the southern border of Turkey. The event became the culmination of multi -day protests in Turkey against the Russian support of government forces in Syria and the roles that Russia played in the deaths of residents and destruction in Aleppo.
"Gardian" notes :
The murder questions the agreement reached with the participation of Turkey and Russia, on the basis of which the evacuation of the civilian population is carried out from the besieged East Aleppo.
A source close to the negotiation process claims that on the weekend, an agreement was carried out only thanks to the efforts of Moscow, despite the objections from the Iranian and jihadist negotiators. Probably, it was important for Moscow to achieve this agreement in order to confirm their claims for significant political influence.
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Alya Ponomareva
Social Networks Editor Radio Liberty