Putin has so far refused to contact Erdogan because Ankara does not want to apologise for the downing of the jet, Putin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Friday.
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Despite this, the Russian leader, who is sending long-range S-400 missiles near the Turkish border following the incident, said he was prepared to work with the US-led coalition against Isis but added his forces would “proceed from the assumption” a similar incident would not reoccur.
Turkey also Thursday summoned the Russian ambassador to Ankara over a violent demonstration outside its embassy in Moscow over the jet downing.
“We need to take the lead so that there can be actions against terrorism that must be intensified”, Hollande told Putin at the start of their talks at the Kremlin.
Mr Putin has also accused Turkey of buying oil from the Islamic State jihadist group, whose financing heavily relies on the sale of energy resources.
According to British daily The Guardian, when in 2012, the Syrian military shot down a Turkish jet which had entered the Syrian airspace, Erdogan made a furious response at the time saying that “a short-term border violation can never be a pretext for an attack”.
Relations between Russia and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member Turkey have deteriorated sharply since Turkish forces downed a Russian warplane on Tuesday and Moscow has warned of “serious consequences” for economic ties.
“There is nearly no country besides Turkey which fights against the organization called Daesh seriously”.
Mr Putin said he was open to closer cooperation with both France and the US-led coalition on selecting jihadi targets.
Turkey’s president has said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments after he met in Moscow with French President Francois Hollande were “unacceptable”.
Peskov said a Turkey-Russia summit scheduled for St. Petersburg in December had not been “officially canceled”, but that “there are many questions”.
Turkey’s president Tayyip Erdogan responded to Russian accusations that Turkey has been buying oil and gas from Islamic State in Syria by accusing Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his backers, which include Moscow, of being the real source of the group’s financial and military power.
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Medvedev said Russian Federation may impose restrictions on food imports within days, having already increased checks of Turkish agriculture products, its first public move to curb trade.
