Turkish intelligence agency MIT helped a prosecutor who investigated the assassination of a Russian ambassador and set up a false suspect to deceive a Russian delegation that was scheduled to visit Turkey for a fact-finding mission into the murder of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov by a radicalized police officer in the Turkish capital.
The scheme was apparently designed to derail the probe and divert Russian authorities’ attention away from the evidence that in fact pointed to elements in the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkish al-Qaeda cells.
The revelations about the plot were made in a court hearing on September 4, 2020 by a victim who was abducted and tortured by the intelligence agency.
The 38-year-old victim, Hüseyin Kötüce, had been tortured for months to extract a false confession and was then turned over to the prosecutor’s office for arrest before the Russian delegation came to Turkey. The delegation was to meet with Turkish prosecutors, police chiefs and intelligence officials to review the evidence collected on Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, the 22-year-old Turkish police officer who gunned down the Russian ambassador on December 19, 2016, as well as his associates and accomplices in the crime.
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