Killers parents among six held over Russian ambassador shooting theguardian.com

Turkey and Russia stress their desire for cooperation after Andrei Karlov shot by off-duty police officer Mevlut Mert Altıntas. The parents, sister, roommate and two other relatives of the gunman, named as Mevlut Mert Altıntas, 22, were being questioned, Anadolu news agency reported. Vladimir Putin called Karlov’s murder a “provocation” aimed at undermining improved relations between the two countries and their efforts to resolve the conflict in Syria. “There can be only one answer to this: stepping up the fight against terrorism, and the bandits will feel this,” said the Russian president.