He called Russian charges that Turkey was buying oil from the Islamic State group “slander”.
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The Turkish foreign minister has said Turkey wants to overcome tensions with Moscow over the downing of a Russian warplane through “diplomacy”.
Russia has deployed its advanced S-400 air defence system in Syria, the Russian defence ministry said today, with the weapons to be used to cover the area around its airbase in coastal Latakia.
On Tuesday, a Russian aircraft was warned 10 times about entering Turkey’s airspace before it was shot down by two Turkish F-16s.
“What we agreed, and this is important, is to strike only terrorists and Daesh (Islamic State) and to not strike forces that are fighting terrorism”, said the French President.
“There is no question mark here”.
In Thursday remarks at a presser with visiting French President Francois Hollande by his side, Putin said Ankara is instead offering “unintelligible explanations and statements that there is nothing to apologize about”.
Turkey’s president has warned Vladimir Putin not to “play with fire” as their war of words continues over the downing of a jet.
Mr Erdogan said Ankara did not deliberately down the plane and dismissed Mr Putin’s criticism of the incident as “unacceptable”.
“We agreed that shortly we will coordinate both on a bilateral basis and with the U.S.-led coalition”, Putin said in a joint press conference at the Kremlin.
On bilateral cooperation with France, he said the aim was to “establish constructive work by our military specialists to avoid duplication and avoid strikes on those territories and groups which are themselves ready to fight terrorism”.
That has soured previously friendly relations between Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Russian Federation and France will co-ordinate their strikes against Islamic State.
Turkey has also released audio recordings of what it says are the warnings given to the Russian pilot before the jet was shot down.
“It was an automatic response to the air space violation”, Erdogan said.
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He accused Moscow of using its airstrikes against IS as a pretext to target opposition groups in order to strengthen Syrian President Bashar al Assad, who remains in power despite nearly five years of civil war.
