Andrei Gennadjewitsch Karlow

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Andrei Karlow, 2016
Funeral of Andrei Karlow

Andrei Gennadjewitsch Karlow ( Russian Андрей Геннадьевич Карлов ; born February 4, 1954 in Moscow , † December 19, 2016 in Ankara ) was a Russian diplomat. Most recently he was the Russian ambassador to Turkey . On the morning of December 19, 2016, he was shot dead by an Islamist attacker .

Life

Andrei Karlow graduated from the Moscow State Institute for International Relations in 1976 and worked from 1979 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1991 at the Soviet embassy in North Korea . After graduating from the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry in 1992, he worked at the Russian Embassy in South Korea from 1992 to 1997 . From 2001 to 2006 he was ambassador to North Korea. From 2007 he worked in the consular department of the Russian Foreign Ministry and became director of this department in 2009. In July 2013 he became ambassador to Turkey .

Karlov was married and had a son.

attack

On December 19, 2016, an Islamist attack was perpetrated on Karlow during a speech at the opening of a photo exhibition in the Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi hall in the Ankara district of Çankaya . He was shot, seriously injured, and succumbed to his injuries shortly afterwards. The assassin Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, a police officer, was shot dead by other police forces shortly after the crime.

The next day, Karlov was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation .

In February 2017, a photo of Burhan Ozbilici was named Press Photo of the Year 2016. It shows the assassin and in the background the lifeless body of Karlov.

See also

Web links

Commons : Andrei Karlov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Turkey: Russian ambassador dies after an attack . Tagesschau.de , December 19, 2016.
  2. ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of December 20, 2016 N 694 “On conferring the title of Hero of the Russian Federation to AG Karlov” (Russian)
  3. ↑ The dead ambassador. Spiegel Online, February 13, 2017, accessed on the same day
personal data
SURNAME Karlow, Andrei Gennadevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Карлов, Андрей Геннадьевич
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH 19th December 2016
Place of death Ankara , Turkey