Ex-Intel Head to Sputnik: Turkey's Syria Policy Set the Stage for Envoy's Murder

On December 19, Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov was gunned down in an art gallery in the Turkish capital. Speaking to Sputnik, Ismail Hakki Pekin, former head of Turkish military intelligence, stressed that Ankara must immediately change its Syria policy, adding that the present policy effectively set the stage for the envoy's murder.