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Turkey sentences five to life over 2016 Russian envoy killing
Russian President Vladimir Putin, center right, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, center left, arrive for a news conference after their talks in the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 5, 2020. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, say they have reached agreements that could end fighting in northwestern Syria. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool)
A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced five suspects to life in jail over the 2016 murder of Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov in Ankara, state news agency Anadolu reports.
Six other suspects were acquitted while seven others were convicted of membership in an armed terrorist group, NTV broadcaster reports, without giving further details.
The suspects were accused of links to the 22-year-old gunman, Mevlut Mert Altintas, who was killed by Turkish special forces shortly after he assassinated Karlov at a photo exhibition in the Turkish capital.
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