President Vladimir Putin said on Monday the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was a provocative ploy to try to ruin Russian-Turkish relations and to take off track the attempts of Moscow, together with Turkey and Iran, to find a solution to the Syrian crisis, Reuters has reported.
Speaking at a meeting in the Kremlin, Putin ordered security at Russian embassies worldwide to be heightened and said he wanted to know who had directed the gunman.
