Putin, Hollande huddle on ISIS

Economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev said Moscow could put limits on flights to and from Turkey, halt preparations for a joint free trade zone, and restrict high-profile projects including the TurkStream gas pipeline and a $20bn nuclear power plant Russian Federation is building in Turkey.

Russian Federation will pull out of the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Syria if there was any repeat of the shooting down of its fighter jet by Turkey, Vladimir Putin has warned.

He said some of the trucks head toward Turkey, and France believes Syrian leader Bashar Assad is also a buyer.

France will also increase its support to rebel groups battling ISIS on the ground in Syria, Mr Hollande added.

He stressed the missiles will not target Russia’s partners, “with whom we fight terrorists in Syria together”.

Earlier, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow expected Turkey and other countries to respect the inviolability of marine traffic through the Black Sea straits as laid out in the Montreux Convention. “Our findings show clearly that Turkish airspace was violated multiple times”.

Mr Erdogan previously said Turkey had not specifically targeted Russian Federation when it shot down the plane in “an automatic response” in line with its rules of engagement, and suggested the military may have acted differently had it known where the jet was from.

On Thursday, Moscow threatened economic retaliation against Ankara, claiming that it still had not received a suitable explanation for why its SU-24 warplane was shot down by a Turkish F-16 fighter jet, Reuters reports.

“For us, Turkey was not just a neighbour, but a friendly state, nearly an ally”, he said.

The next day, Mr Erdogan described Mr Putin’s claims as “unfair” as he warned Russian Federation not to “play with fire”. Hollande said the Syrian leader “does not have his place in Syria’s future”. The incident happened on Tuesday, when Turkish military operations gunned down a Russian war jet that was flying near where Turkey boarders Syria.

“You’re paying big attention and putting a lot of efforts into the creation of a broad anti-terrorist coalition”, TASS quoted Putin as saying at the start of his meeting with his French counterpart Francois Hollande Hollande in the Kremlin on Thursday.