A few initial short thoughts on the murder of the Russian Ambassador to Ankara

[Will Wiley]

A few initial short thoughts on the murder of the Russian Ambassador to Ankara

Here I really hope that I am wrong, but if I want to be honest I have to admit that I am completely unable to find an excuse of the lax security around Ambassador Andrey Karlov. And I am not referring to the Turks here, I am referring to the Russian security services. Here is why.

Even if we assume that the Turks had told the Russians that they had established a ‘safe/sterile’ perimeter around the exhibit and that the general public would not be let in, the footage shows what appears to be only a few guests, there is no excuse for the Russian not to have at least one bodyguard in the immediate proximity to the Ambassador. Turkey is not only a country at war, but Russia is a party to that war, the Takfiris have made a very long list of threats against Russia and, finally, Turkey is a country which has suffered from terrorism for years and which has just suffered a bloody attempted coup. In a country like that a top official like an Ambassador should have been protected by an entire group of bodyguards, but in this case there was clearly nobody. Oh sure, the Russian can blame the Turks for having set up a crappy perimeter, but as professionals they should know that the Turks are already having extreme difficulties in dealing with their own terrorists and that following the massive purges the security services are in a state of chaos. Would one bodyguard have made a difference?

Yes, possibly. Probably in fact.

 

[barbos]

Terrorist was not a random Allahakbar , he was a police officer who previously assigned to guard Russian embassy. He was not assigned to be there at the time but security let him because he was one of them.
Yes, the russians could have predicted that, but even if they could it would have been very hard to explain to turks that we don't trust your men. Truth is, Turkey is a mess and Erdoghan has all the reasons to have paranoia.