Police detained a gunman who fired multiple shots near the entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey early Tuesday hours after the Russian ambassador to Turkey was killed in an attack across the street.

The state-run Anadolu news agency reported the man took out a pump-action shotgun he hid in his coat and fired around eight shots in the air before the embassy’s security guards intervened and overpowered him. The news agency reported that the man was only identified as Shain S.

The State Department said in a statement that no one was injured in the incident and praised the “prompt response” of Turkish authorities.

The embassy said its missions in Ankara, Istanbul and the southern city of Adana would be "closed for normal operations on Tuesday."
The U.S. Embassy is located just across the street from the art exhibition center where the Russian ambassador was killed. It was not immediately known if the two incidents were connected.

The leaders of Turkey and Russia have described the attack as an attempt to disrupt efforts to repair ties between their countries, which have backed opposing sides in the Syrian civil war.

It came as the foreign and defense ministers from Turkey, Iran and Russia prepared to hold a key meeting on Syria on Tuesday in Moscow.
The security scare occurred hours after the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer as Karlov delivered a speech at the opening of an art exhibition in the capital.

The assassin stood over Karlov's body and condemned Russia's military role in Aleppo and elsewhere in Syria before he was killed by police.

It was not immediately clear whether Karlov's assassination and the incident at the U.S. Embassy were connected.

Two Russian news agencies, quoting unnamed sources, reported that a group of Russian investigators and experts has left for Ankara to take part in the probe, after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he had accepted during a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russian experts take part in the investigation.

Turkish police meanwhile detained two more people connected to Altintas on Tuesday, raising the number of people in custody for questioning to six, Anadolu reported. They include the man's parents, sister, two other relatives and his roommate in Ankara.

Turkey's pro-government newspaper Yeni Safak claimed Karlov's killing was a plot by the U.S. intelligence agency that was carried out by a movement led by U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey says is behind a failed coup in July aimed at toppling Erdogan. Gulen denies the accusation.

"Great Sabotage," Yeni Safak said in its headline.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/20/gunman-arrested-after-firing-shots-near-us-embassy-in-turkey.html?refresh=true

If this is true, the idiot in chief has royally stepped in it now. His playing two sides has finally backfired.

Does anyone really think Russia wont come at us? Their Ambassador was brutally murdered and if tied to a US intelligence agency Putin will come unglued. He has already promised that he's not going to be a p***y and be like Obama with Benghazi. Russia is going after anyone involved.

I thought John Kerry was a little to quick to come out on this issue. All while the President played golf. Nice.

Another sign that US intelligence is involved. Right after the shooting there was one at the front entrance to the American Embassy. The gunman walked up and fired a shotgun in the air several times.

He could have shot the Marine Security Detail officers or anyone coming and going from the Embassy, but shooting the gun in the air? Why? To also make the US look like a target so were not exposed.

Meanwhile, back in this universe . . .

not even Obama is THAT stupid!

possibly and may be,,,,,funny words

reminds me of a demetri martin joke 'road may be slippery', means exactly the same as 'road may not be slippery

possibly tied to america means exactly the same as possibly not tied to America


considering Russias Involvement in Syria,, i think its PROBABLE that they have made many enemies and potential assassins in the area...'

Exactly!

I beg to differ. that a$$hole has severely F'd up our relations with our closest allies over the past 8 years, to the point where we are now kept at arms length. We were once considered the most powerful country in the world. Until Obama dismantled our military and went on the world wide apology tour.

which allies?

who considered us most powerful that no longer does?

Ummm, I'm not talking about popularity I am talking what their Government's think of the $hithead. Hell, the Queen wouldn't even meet with him which was a huge slap in the face and a first time in recent history that has happened.

oh,, where is the data on what 'governments' think?

I dont believe the queen 'wouldnt' meet with him

I can believe she may have had something else on her schedule, if it happened at all

If the leader of the free world comes to your country you meet with him, just like if the Queen came here you wipe your schedule. She was planning a vacation less then an hour away from where Obama was coming, and it didn't help that he said he was going to inform the Queen that he was against the Briexit vote.

He has managed to piss off our closest allies the UK, Israel, Australia, Canada and the list goes on.

perhaps the drop everything custom you believe exists everywhere just doesn't?

maybe not all leadership has the narcissism to expect it to?

now when UK parliament meets to discuss the reasons you should not be allowed in their country,, THAT's a snub,,,,

however, that didn't happen to OBama and


nowhere has UK, AUSTRALIA, or CANADAS leaders said he 'pissed' them off

those youth may aim on the ambassadors.....however just remember that U.S one was dead months ago.....it can't be hardly to find something about hightly drill with current mid-east political scence.....

those friggin yuts!!!!

take off the blinders lol


he wants to make it as hard on trump as possible no matter the consequences


those that complain about something the most are usually the ones most likely to do what they are complaining about

It is just another Happy Gabby Giffords day ... where the Patsey is gunned down by some Jew (Jack Rubenstein) so as to save Jackie the pain of a jury trial for a guilty guy according to the Jew pimp bar owner Mafia muscle man.

In New York 911 .. the ID cards came out of the dust in perfect condition, no blood, no tears, no burns that would melt steel supposedly into a puddle from a kerosene burner.

In Boston .. yup .. ID cards left in the back pack.

In San Bernardino .. yup .. ID cards left in the mass murder site.

In Germany and in France .. ID card left in the trucks.

THEN THE COPS PLAY DUMB AND DUMBER letting the terrorists go and sometimes even paying them money to do more killing later on ... from the Highest Office in the land comes this idea and practice.

After All Ossama Ben Laudin was allowed to run off and escape as well you know because of dumb and dumber at work.

I am just curious ...

are you able to see a pattern here ...

besides, just the Libtards getting killed off.

sumbuddie wear blind sea

and meanwhile,he will live up in the Air after 20th January?

If he had a Hand in it,he would be the one Putin comes after!

The Jack Rubenstein Cops gave him the long dirt nap ... no jury trial, no evidence, no investigation.

Go back to sleep sheeple ... nothing to see here.

Just another Happy Gabby Giffords day on the Libtard Itches.

sumbuddie wear blind sea

I think that it is a martyr act (djihadist). The muslim killer knew that he will be killed in return of his act. He has done it with the strong believe and in the name of allah akbar. It is clear that he is islamic terrorist. It is not needed to belong to any organization to fight in the name of god of islam. Just believing in allah and mohamed is enough to act like djihadist.

http://nypost.com/2016/12/30/ambassador-assassin-may-have-been-manipulated-by-secret-lover/

and this is what i had learn yet.......