Mr Lavrov had earlier described the incident as a “planned provocation”.
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“If we’re serious about that, Turkey needs to be an ally and we need to show support”.
Davutoglu told his party’s lawmakers on Wednesday that Turkey didn’t know the nationality of the plane that was brought down on Tuesday until Moscow announced it was Russian.
“We must now do everything to prevent an escalation”, she said. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that “important joint projects could be canceled and Turkish firms could lose Russian market share”, the AP reports. Davutoglu demanded that operations there stop immediately.
He said the other “managed to escape and be rescued by the Syrian army”.
Syria’s government refers to all rebels trying to topple President Bashar Assad as terrorists. It said he is in “good health”.
A Turkmen commander said missiles fired from Russian warships in the Mediterranean were also hitting the area, as well as heavy artillery shelling.
She adds that only a long-term political solution will end the conflict in Syria.
The Turkish military later released what it said was an audio recording of a warning to a Russian fighter jet before it was shot down near the Syrian border.
Speaking on a trip to the Ural mountains city of Nizhny Tagil, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the despatch of an advanced weapons system to Russia’s Khmeimim air base in Syria’s Latakia province.
The other pilot of the Su-24 jet was reported dead.
Meanwhile, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias expressed his deep concern over the incident in a phone call to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov Tuesday.
Russian news agencies on Wednesday quoted Sergei Shoigu as saying that the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems would be sent to the Hemeimeem air base in the government-controlled area which Moscow uses for its Air Force sorties.
Shoigu also said that from now on all Russian bombers will be escorted by fighters on their combat missions in Syria. One of the pilots was killed by groundfire as he parachuted from his crippled plane, the Russian general staff said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that his country doesn’t wish to escalate tensions with Russian Federation.
Speaking at a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation in Istanbul, he said that his country wanted “peace, dialogue and diplomacy”.
“Nobody should expect us to remain silent against the constant violation of our border security, the ignoring of our sovereign rights”, Erdogan said.
A furious Mr Putin warned of “significant consequences” for an attack which he described as a “stab in the back by the terrorists’ accomplices”.
Turkish and Russian officials have agreed to meet for talks over the downing of a Russian warplane, according to Turkey’s Foreign Ministry.
Russian Federation is a major exporter of grain and energy to Turkey, and it sends over four million tourists each year to Turkish resorts, second only to the number of German tourists. A second pilot was killed.
Russian Federation now says the other crew member has been rescued. It had repeatedly warned Russia over airspace violations since October and last week summoned the Russian ambassador to protest against the bombing of Turkmen villages.
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There was no sign Russian Federation wanted a military escalation, or to jeopardise its main objective in the region: to rally global support for its view on how the conflict in Syria should be resolved.
