Last week, the trial of Andrey Gennadyevich Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, who was killed on December 19, 2016, during the opening of a photo exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, was completed in Ankara. Bulat Nogmanov, a columnist for Realnoe Vremya, about how the investigation of this case went and what embarrassing questions remained unanswered.
How trial ended
The investigation established that the FETÖ terrorist organisation was behind the Karlov case that intended to provoke the deterioration of Russian-Turkish relations by killing the Russian ambassador. The accusatory sentence includes the expressions such as “for attempting to eliminate the constitutional order” and “premeditated murder with a terrorist purpose”.