In one video containing the message, a voice speaking in English can be heard saying, “This is Turkish Air Force speaking, en garde”.
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Military officials recalled that Turkish side conveyed rules of engagement earlier and told that rules of engagement apply if any aircraft, whose nationality is unknown, approaches Turkish airspace. “Change your heading south immediately”.
However, Turkey’s General Staff claims that the Turkish fighter jet shot down a plane that violated the country’s airspace. It is unclear what happened to the body of Peshkov, who was killed by gunfire as he parachuted from the burning plane.
The other one was rescued.
Ankara has said the plane was repeatedly warned to change course after encroaching on Turkish air space but Moscow has denied that its warplane flew over Turkish territory.
A Turkish official said that the two countries “do not have the luxury of bad relations”.
Moscow, however, dismissed Ankara’s claims, stressing that the plane was brought down in Syrian airspace, where Russian Federation has been conducting operations against Takfiri terrorists since September 30 upon a request by the Damascus government.
It said they have responded all questions and displayed radar tracks of the flights by Russian planes that violated Turkish airspace.
One of the Russian pilots survived the incident and was rescued by a unit of Syrian army commandos.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry says the foreign ministers of Turkey and Russia have agreed to meet for talks over the downing of a Russian warplane.
“We have tightened security measures around most of the targeted embassies, and we have already embarked on that in the vicinity of the Russian and Egyptian missions”, an unnamed security source told al-Joumhouria daily on Thursday.
“If they wanted to warn us, they could have sat on our wing”, said Murakhtin, who is now recuperating at Russia’s airbase in Latakia, northern Syria.
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said he does not want an escalation with Moscow, while the prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu called Russian Federation a “friend and neighbour”.
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Russian Federation has been actively engaged in counterterrorism efforts in Syria since late September.
