Ever since the latest Turkish Coup failed, Turkey has been moving away from NATO and into Russia’s sphere of influence. This attack on its face, drives a wedge between Turkey and Russia, obviously. Turkish policeman, a special ops person, assassinated a Russian Diplomat in Turkey. Putin however is not stupid enough to wedge away from Turkey in this situation. He will use the situation to his advantage. Interesting to note, the Muslim Brotherhood may have had connections to both this assassin and Ambassador Stevens assassins. This fits their MO.
Putin has announced that he and Erdogan will work together to figure out whose hand was behind this. Erdogan should be outraged to have an ambassador under his police protection assassinated. On the surface it sounds like both Putin and Erdogan got played- and yesterday it was King of Jordan getting played with his tourist sites shot up. None of this seems to be in the interests of the usual,suspects ( ISIS, “ moderate rebels”, CIA)
Who,knows in this game.