Turkish diplomat stabbed in Moscow-embassy

MOSCOW, Dec 12 (Reuters) A diplomat with Turkey's embassy in Moscow is in hospital with stab wounds, the embassy said in a statement today.

''On the night of December 10 embassy counsellor Anil Cecek was the victim of an attack and suffered a knife wound,'' the embassy's press section said in a statement. ''The condition of the ...

diplomat, who is in hospital, is good.'' An embassy official said he was unable to comment on whether there was any racial motive to the attack. A spokeswoman for Moscow police said she had no information about the incident.

Russia has seen a spate of racially motivated attacks on foreigners, often people from Central Asia or the Caucasus region.

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