Putin and Erdogan Will Not Meet in Paris – Peskov

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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutgolu said on Sunday that Peshkov’s body had arrived in Turkey overnight, but gave no further details of how it was recovered or brought across the border.

The new measures against Turkey announced at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev also include limits on Turkish construction firms’ ability to sign new contracts in Russian Federation and restrictions on road transport.

“The protection of our land borders, our airspace, is not only a right, it is a duty”, he said. “I hope something like this doesn’t happen again”, Erdogan reportedly said Saturday, adding that he was “saddened” by the incident.

The Russian embassy in Turkey also confirmed that the body of the pilot would be brought to Ankara Sunday before being sent to Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, at the global climate talks in Paris, on Monday said “we have every reason to believe” that the plane was shot down to protect what he described as Turkish profiteering from illegal imports of oil produced by Islamic State rebels in Syria.

The Russian air force said Monday that its Su-34 fighter-bombers in Syria were now armed with air-to-air missiles. While it says it is also targeting Islamic State, most of its air strikes have been against other Assad opponents, including groups actively supported by Turkey.

The White House says Obama told Putin that Syrian President Bashar Assad must leave power in the transition to end Syria’s civil war.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and commander-in-chief of Russia’s Airspace Force Col. Gen. Viktor Bondarev met the plane, escorted by fighter jets, at the airfield.

Douglas Lute, the US ambassador to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, said he saw American data which “corroborates Turkey’s version of events”.

Six days after North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member Turkey shot down the Russian fighter jet in the first known incident of its kind since the Cold War, calls for calm have gone largely unheeded as Ankara refuses to back down and Russia responds with sanctions.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia will restrict imports of Turkish fruit and vegetables as part of a package of new sanctions following the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey last week.

Suzan Fraser contributed from Ankara, Turkey.