“No Turkish prime minister or president or authority will apologise because of doing our duty”, Davutoglu added.
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Peshkov was killed in circumstances that have yet to be fully explained while the second pilot, Konstantin Murakhtin, was rescued unharmed and has already spoken to Russian media.
The body of the pilot of a Russian Su-24 bomber shot down by a Turkish fighter jet last week has arrived in Moscow. Air force spokesman Col. Igor Klimov said the missiles have a range of about 60 kilometers (35 miles), Russian news agencies reported.
“We would like to see Russian Federation concentrating efforts to fight our common enemy ISIL and to do so also in Syria”, he said.
Mr Obama stressed the importance of targeting Islamic State militants in Syria and not focusing military attacks against rebel groups who oppose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a White House official said on condition of anonymity.
Turkey shot down the plane on Tuesday after it entered its airspace from Syria, ignoring several warnings. “So the airplane was in Turkey, it was engaged in Turkey”.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week lifted restrictions and sanctions on Iran, allowing nuclear equipment exports to resume, and strengthening cooperation in the sector, Kallanish Energy learns from a Kremlin spokesperson. The measures also call for ending chartered flights from Russia to Turkey and for Russian tourism companies to stop selling vacation packages that would include a stay in Turkey.
