Russian Diplomat Found Dead in Hotel Room
Police in Turkey are probing the death of a senior Moscow envoy found dead during a diplomatic trip.
Colleagues of Nikolai Kobrinets, 61, head of the Russian foreign ministry's department for pan-European cooperation, raised the alarm when he did not appear for a scheduled meeting on Friday morning.
He was found dead in his hotel room in Istanbul's Taksim district, with the Turkish news outlet Hurriyet reporting that the initial investigations pointed towards the diplomat dying of a heart attack.
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