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Monday 19 December 2016

Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot in Ankara



From Hurriyet Daily News - http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com - "Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, has been shot at an art exhibition in the Turkish capital of Ankara".

Update, BBC: Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov shot dead in Ankara

From RT - Russian ambassador to Turkey dies after gun attack in Ankara – Foreign Ministry

Russian ambassador to Turkey shot dead in Ankara art gallery, The Guardian

Turkish police detain six after Russian ambassador shot dead, Reuters

Russia and Turkey, joined by Iran, announce intention to halt war in Syria, Washington Post


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Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
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