It fell on Syrian territory 4 kilometers from the Turkish border.
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They also expressed their commitment to a bringing about a transitional political process for peace in Syria and joint determination to continue the fight against Islamic State (IS) jihadists, the statement added. NATO is calling for calm and de-escalation in contacts between Moscow and Ankara regarding the incident with Russia’s Sukhoi Su-24 bomber downed by the Turkish Air Force above Syria, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said following an extraordinary meeting of the NATO Council convened on Turkey’s initiative. “Today’s tragic event will have serious consequences for Russian-Turkish relations”, he warned.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian charge d’affaires on Tuesday as North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was holding an emergency meeting.
It is not known what has happened to a second pilot who was in the plane.
Around 1,700 people have fled the mountainous Syrian area to the Turkish border as a result of fighting in the last three days, a Turkish official said on Monday. “And they violated it knowingly”, the official said.
According to Medvedev, Russia is considering canceling several important projects with Turkey and barring Turkish companies from the Russian market. Although the Turkish military has said the plane remained in its airspace for five minutes, this distance would take the Russian warplane that was shot down less than a minute to cross, assuming a constant elevation.
The fighter jet exploded in mid-air, crashing in a fireball onto a mountain on the Syrian side of the border, television pictures showed.
Syrian Turkmen are Syrian citizens of Turkish ethnicity who have lived in Syria since Ottoman times and have coexisted with Syrian Arabs for hundreds of years. He also informed the United Nations and related countries.
“We established a long time ago that large quantities of oil and oil products from territory captured by Islamic State have been arriving on Turkish territory”, he said, saying that was how militants had been funding themselves.
Turkey has complained repeatedly that Russian planes supporting Assad are straying across the border. Russian and Syrian jets have been conducting anti-terror airstrikes in the region.
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“It’s as if we shot down a Turkish plane rather than them shooting down one of ours”. “Our findings show clearly that Turkish airspace was violated”.
