Russian ambassador's assassination in Turkey was organised by 'NATO secret services' and was 'a provocation and challenge to Moscow' claims Kremlin senator
The secret services of a NATO country is 'highly likely' to have been behind the assassination of ambassador Andrey Karlov, claimed a top ally of Vladimir Putin. Senior senator Frantz Klintsevich, deputy chairman of the Russian upper chamber's defence and security committee, said: 'It was a planned action.
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Everyone knew that he was going to attend this photo exhibition. It can be ISIS, or the Kurdish army which tries to hurt Erdogan. But may be - and it is highly likely - that representatives of foreign NATO secret services are behind it.
'What has happened is a true provocation, a challenge.
'It is a challenge for Russia.'
The senator is a member of the ruling council of United Russia party, Putin's vehicle of power.
The Russian Foreign Ministry vowed that terrorism would not win after the assassination of the Russian ambassador in Turkey.
Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said: 'We call this event an act of terror.
'Terrorism will not win.
'We will strongly fight it.
Political consultant Dmitry Fetisov warned: 'There is no doubt a reaction will follow, both for Syrian terrorists and for Turkish power.
'Our position in Syria will become tougher, surely.
'No single country that respects itself can forgive such a cruel act as the murder of its own ambassador.
' It will make Russia angrier.
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