俄驻土耳其大使安德烈·卡尔洛夫2016后12月19日在土首都安卡拉参加艺术展开幕式时遭枪击身亡。媒体评论称,若此事发生在数月前俄土关系最紧张之际,后果不堪设想。这样的担忧并非杞人忧天,20世纪曾发生多起大使遇刺的严重外交事件,其中数次甚至影响了世界历史进程。 Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karl Karlov was shot dead when he attended the opening ceremony of the art exhibition in Ankara, the capital of the indigenous soil, on December 19, Media commented that if the incident took place a few months ago when the relations between Russia and Turkey were the most tense, the consequences would be disastrous. Such concerns are not unfounded. In the 20th century, there were many serious diplomatic incidents in which the ambassadors were assassinated, many of which even affected the course of world history.