New York Daily News columnist Gersh Kuntzman wrote Tuesday that the assassination of Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov was justified.

The Russian ambassador to Turkey was killed Monday at an Ankara art exhibition by an off-duty Turkish police officer who shouted, “Allahu Akbar, and “Don’t forget Aleppo.” Kuntzman wrote, “As Vladimir Putin’s man in Turkey, Karlov was the public face of that murderous dictator’s war crimes around the globe and of oppression at home.”