FETÖ terrorist responsible for Russian ambassador assassination

Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, the off-duty police officer responsible for assassinating Russia's ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov, has been linked to the FETÖ terrorist organization.

Evidence from the Diyarbakır Governorate proves that Altıntaş took two days of annual leave before the attempted July 15 coup. In the annual leave form Altıntaş filled out, he wrote down the address of FETÖ militant Abdullah Bozkurt as his home address. Kahraman Sezer, the police commissioner who signed off on the annual leave document, was recently arrested for being a FETÖ terror organization member.

The coup has proven to be the failed attempts of FETÖ terrorists to overthrow the Turkish government.

Altıntaş, who attended a FETÖ linked prep school, was found to have illegally obtained the answers to the university entrance exam.

Georgetown University Associate Professor Anne Speckhard posted an analysis of the assassination soon after it was announced that Karlov had succumbed to his wounds, arguing that the shooting was linked to the situation in Syria. Speckhard is known for her ties to FETÖ.

In her article, Speckhard emphasizes that Al-Nusra was behind the assassination. Speckhard, who argues that Daesh or the PKK couldn't possibly be behind the attack, states that Al-Nusra or the opposition fighters in Syria could be responsible due to Russia's military operations in Syria. Speckhard quotes the gunman's comments on Syria as proof for her argument.

“Perhaps there is a foreign fighter amongst Ahrar Al-Sham, possibly a Russian citizen against the Chechens or Moscow," said Speckhard, in a statement aimed at driving a wedge between Turkey and Russia. Ahrar Al-Sham is one of the largest groups against Assad in Syria. Turkey has backed opposition fighters in Syria, whereas Russia has provided military support for the Syrian regime.

Speckhard established the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) at Georgetown University. The ICSVE organized a conference titled “Turkey after the 15 July coup attempt," aimed at criticizing Erdoğan and Turkey's situation.

In the program organized by Speckhard, Ahmet Sait Yayla, a FETÖ-linked academic and former police chief who was removed from his post following the July 15 coup attempt, made a speech against Turkey in the U.S. representation council.

Immediately after the assassination of the Russian Ambassador Karlov, FETÖ supporters took to social media to point the blame elsewhere. FETÖ supporters posted misinformation across multiple social media websites.

Emre Uslu shared a photograph of Ahmet Çetin, a member of AKP's Youth Association, standing under an AKP logo claiming that Çetin was gunman Mevlüt Mert Altuntaş.

Ahmet Çetin made an announcement via Twitter, emphasizing that neither himself nor the AKP was linked to the shooting.

Çetin also said that he would seek legal persecution for those who were falsely attributing the assassination to him.

The slanderous campaign blaming AKP supporter Çetin lasted four hours.