President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a joint press conference with Albania's President Bujar Nishani at Presidential Complex.
President Erdogan responded to the question about the assassination of Russian Ambassador Karlov, saying, "The links of assassination to the Russian ambassador show FETO, the assassin is belonging to the terrorist organization of the FETO. I have to say this net and clearly.
Erdoğan said, "There is still this dirty organization in our police force, as it is in our armed forces, and these are still being cleaned, and we have to be sensitive. Karlov's sacrifice of such an assassination makes us saddened. I recognize him as one of the exceptional diplomats in his term in Turkiye. A diplomat who has not been involved in the internal affairs of Turkiye, and was trying to develop Turkiye-Russia relations.”
Erdoğan responded to the questions of the attacker not to be caught alive, saying "Some people are speculating why he did not get alive. When the price was paid when they tried to catch live, 5 policemen went together tried to catch someone and that one martyred all 5 policemen in Istanbul. Sometimes you cannot be successful at these savings. Our friend who shot, shook his hand to the other side and shot him with the worry that he would get a bomb." (ILKHA)