Erdogan had requested a meeting with his Russian counterpart Putin in Paris, Russia said on Friday.
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“The American side, which leads the coalition that Turkey belongs to, knew about the location and time of our planes” flights, and we were hit exactly there and at that time, ‘ Mr Putin said.
The Turkish government, on the day of incident, said that its F-16s shot down the Russian SU-24 after several warnings against its violation of Turkish airspace over the southern province of Hatay.
After the incident, Russia deployed long-range S-400 air defense missile systems to a Russian air base in Syria just 30 miles south of the border with Turkey to help protect Russian warplanes.
“It will be very hard to mend bilateral relations after such quite devastating damage”.
But the idea of a single anti-IS coalition involving Western powers and Russian Federation did not get off the ground as US President Barack Obama is said to have given a cool response to Hollande’s proposal.
The decree also officially confirms that Turks will have to apply for visas to visit Russian Federation, a move which Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had announced Friday.
Putin signed the decree days before a climate change summit in Paris next week, which Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said earlier on Saturday could be a chance to fix relations with Moscow.
Erdogan told supporters during a speech in Bayburt in northeast Turkey on Friday that Russian Federation “is playing with fire to go as far as mistreating our citizens who have gone to Russia”.
Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is calling for a face-to-face meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Both United States along with other allies, including Turkey, as well as Russian Federation are carrying out air campaigns against Islamic State and other groups.
“What we agreed, and this is important, is to strike only terrorists and Daesh [the pejorative Arabic name for ISIS] and to not strike forces that are fighting terrorism”.
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Mr Putin has also firmly rejected any suggestion Turkey did not recognise the plane as Russian. A Russian soldier was killed in a rescue operation.
