ANKARA (Dispatches) – A senior Russian diplomat, Nikolai Kobrinets, was found dead in a hotel in Turkey. The 61-year-old head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department for Pan-European Cooperation had arrived in Turkey to participate in a summit of ambassadors from different countries but did not show up for the scheduled morning meeting, after which his colleagues raised the alarm. Russian media and official statements have already said that Kobrinets died of a heart attack, but Turkish police have launched an investigation into the death of the high-ranking diplomat. There were no signs of violence, so he probably died as a result of a heart attack, as already announced in the obituary published by the Russian Foreign Ministry.