Ankara will not allow anyone to spoil relations with Russia, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at the ceremony to unveil the Eurasia Tunnel in Istanbul.
"Russia's representative, for whom we were responsible, was attacked yesterday," Erdogan recalled.
Erdogan expressed condolences to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian people.
"On behalf of the Turkish nation and on my own behalf I strongly condemn the killing of the Russian ambassador and curse the perpetrators. We have had a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin and we are unanimous it was an outright provocation aimed at harming our relations," TASS cited Erdogan as saying.
He promised that all those responsible will be tracked down and brought to justice.
"We will not allow to spoil our relations with Russia," he stressed.
