The bullets of an assassin shook the world on Monday. Shot from
behind by a former Turkish police officer, at an art gallery in Ankara,
right across the street from the US embassy, the Russian ambassador to
Turkey, Andrey Karlov, a man with a long and distinguished career in the
Soviet and Russian Foreign Service, died on the spot.
Those who
are behind this assassination, for no one can believe that this man
acted alone, are exposed by the slogan he shouted after the murder, “Don’t forget Aleppo.”
They are exposed by the words and photos which were quickly splashed
across the front pages of the western media and set in an editorial
context that implicitly condoned the act. The Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, and the BBC made sure those words were in their headlines
and the lead paragraphs of their stories, as did the New York Times and
the rest. The New York Times posted a photo of the assassin standing
with his arm raised in the air, as if an actor in a Hollywood action
film, beginning his transformation from terrorist assassin into a martyr
“for Aleppo and the people of Syria.” A fanatic acted out his part in
life and they will make sure he continues to act it out in death. A
member of the Ukraine parliament has already called the assassin a
“martyr.”
