Russian ambassador to Turkey seriously injured after being shot in 'assassination attempt'
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Russia's ambassador to Turkey has been seriously wounded in an 'assassination attempt'.
Ambassador Andrei Karlov was rushed to hospital after he was shot as he attended an event at an art gallery in the Turkish capital of Ankara.
Photos published online by Turkish media showed Mr Karlov on the floor in a pool of blood.
The gunman allegedly entered the art gallery with police identification, the Hurriyet newspaper reported.
The attacker allegedly fired a shot into the air as the ambassador spoke and then turned the gun on him, shooting him at least once.Comment -
No
Settle downComment -
know your history
WWWIComment -
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Russia -25,000
Turkey +15,000Comment -
Turkey = NATO
know what that means ?Comment -
russia and china together is a force not to be reckon withComment -
They have to start it some way.Comment -
assuming there is war and countries picking sides against natoComment -
I think sammy needs an amazon echo for xmasComment -
ww1 all over again. The arch bishop of austria -hungary ferdinand was assissinated by a serbian of muslim faith. Most be an old guy like me sammyComment -
shooter killed
ranting about AleppoComment -
It was an ambassador not an arch duke and he didn't even die. StopComment -
props to all the history buffs, i shot pool insteadComment -
The simplest answer is that the immediate cause was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria-Hungary. His death at the hands of Gavrilo Princip – a Serbian nationalist with ties to the secretive military group known as the Black Hand – propelled the major European military powers towards war.May 31, 2016
WAS TALKING ABOUT WW1, My teacher in history was a pilot in ww2 and like to say that he was a resident of the hitler hilton in ww2
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Sammy your the type that start rumors in your neighborhood that are not true
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Ambassador deadComment -
Ok ambassador dead. That's what ambassadors are for in relation to the country they serve. To provide their country with a presence in a foreign country while limiting the risk to said countries political leaders. You thought Afghanistan in 2013 was the only catastrophy? It's been happening throughout history. Any kind of revolt or political statement is usually made by targeting ambassadors.
Comparing an ambassador today to an heir of a throne back in ww1 is TMZ imoComment -
the guy that died may of been christian but the black hand was a group of officers. But the people who did the assassination were muslim. I had to do a paper on it in 1982. While i don't remember shit from yesterday ;I do from the past. I googled it to make sure I was right and I am.
The simplest answer is that the immediate cause was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria-Hungary. His death at the hands of Gavrilo Princip – a Serbian nationalist with ties to the secretive military group known as the Black Hand – propelled the major European military powers towards war.May 31, 2016
I had to do a paper on it in 1982. While i don't remember shit from yesterday ;I do from the past. I googled it to make sure I was right and I am.Comment -
nato not interested in this. will not go to war with russia because they may retaliate against turkey in some manner. nato is really a figment of someone's imagination. they will not intervene. more interested in appeasing russia than fighting them.Comment -
Has Donald Trump declared war on Turkey on behalf of Russia yet?Comment -
The first conspirator along the parade route was Mehmed Mehmedbasic, a 27-year old carpenter, son of an impoverished Bosnian Muslim notable: he had a bomb. After planning a plot of his own to kill Governor Potiorek, Mehmedbasic joined the larger plot.
When the car passed him, he did nothing: a gendarme stood close by, and Mehmedbasic feared that a botched attempt might spoil the chance for the others. He was the only one of the assassins to escape.
Next was Vaso Cubrilovic, a 17-year old student armed with a revolver. Cubrilovic was recruited for the plot during a political discussion: in Bosnia in 1914, virtual strangers might plot political murders, if they shared radical interests. Cubrilovic had been expelled from the Tuzla high school for walking out on the Habsburg anthem. Cubrilovic too did nothing, afraid of shooting Duchess Sophie by accident. Under Austrian law, there was no death penalty for juvenile offenders, so Cubrilovic was sentenced to 16 years. In later life became a history professor.
Nedelko Cabrinovic was the third man, a 20-year old idler on bad terms with his family over his politics: he took part in strikes and read anarchist books. His father ran a cafe, did errands for the local police, and beat his family. Nedelko dropped out of school, and moved from job to job: locksmithing, operating a lathe, and setting type. In 1914 Cabrinovic worked for the Serbian state printing house in Belgrade.
He was a friend of Gavrilo Princip, who recruited him for the killing, and they travelled together back to Sarajevo. Cabrinovic threw a bomb, but failed to see the car in time to aim well: he missed the heir's car and hit the next one, injuring several people. Cabrinovic swallowed poison and jumped into a canal, but he was saved from suicide and arrested. He died of tuberculosis in prison in 1916.
The fourth and fifth plotters were standing together. One was Cvetko Popovic, an 18-year old student who seems to have lost his nerve, although he claimed not to have seen the car, being nearsighted. Popovic received a 13-year sentence, and later became a school principal.
Nearby was 24-year old Danilo Ilic, the main organizer of the plot; he had no weapon. Ilic was raised in Sarajevo by his mother, a laundress. His father was dead, and Ilic worked as a newsboy, a theatre usher, a laborer, a railway porter, a stone-worker and a longshoreman while finishing school; later he was a teacher, a bank clerk, and a nurse during the Balkan Wars. His real vocation was political agitation: he had contacts in Bosnia, with the Black Hand in Serbia, and in the exile community in Switzerland. He obtained the guns and bombs used in the plot. Ilic was executed for the crime.
The final two of the seven conspirators were farther down the road. Trifko Grabez was a 19-year old Bosnian going to school in Belgrade, where he became friends with Princip. He too did nothing: at his trial he said he was afraid of hurting some nearby women and children, and feared that an innocent friend standing with him would be arrested unjustly. He too died in prison: the Austrians spared few resources for the health of the assassins after conviction.Comment -
RR....check in bro.Comment -
He wasn't in line to be king because he his uncle was king. They bestowed family with nice posts back then . Please get your facts straight before you make me start having to look things up. I'm too old for this. By the way ;It wasn't meant to be taken literal. Just a smart ass remark I was making to sammy as a compliment him for knowing history.Comment -
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WWW3? WHO is on what team.Comment -
Wow I was barely alive in 1982. It is one of the more interesting events in history right up there with the night of the long knives. The assassin kind of messed up, the arch duke should've lived but the chaos and poor transportation in terms of an ambulance back then contributed to his deathComment
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