Russian pilot’s body with Turkish authorities

The body is being treated in accordance with the Orthodox tradition, Davutoglu said in a news conference in Ankara before going to Brussels for a meeting with European Union leaders on migration.

The incident left one pilot dead; another was rescued.

Moscow’s surprise intervention in the almost five-year-old Syrian civil war in September wrong-footed the West and put Turkey, which shares a long border with Syria, directly at odds with Russian support for the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

Turkish authorities claim the Russian jet crossed into Turkey’s airspace prior to being shot down, while Russian authorities vehemently denying those claims.

“What we tell Russian Federation is ‘Let’s talk about this issue within its boundaries and let’s settle it. Let’s not make others happy by hurting our relationship”, he said.

Russian football clubs have been banned from signing Turkish players during the forthcoming transfer window due strained relations between the two countries.

Relations between Turkey and Russian Federation have sharply deteriorated since Tuesday’s incident, with Russian Federation imposing economic sanctions and revoking a visa-free agreement, while Turkey has sought to cool tensions, seeing the Paris climate change talks that start this week as a chance to mend ties.

The countries disagree sharply on whether the Russian plane was in Turkish airspace when it was shot down, as well as whether any warnings went out to the crew.

Peshkov died when Turkmen rebels shot at him as he and his colleague were parachuting down in an attempt to land within government-held territory. The measures also call for ending chartered flights from Russia to Turkey and for Russian tourism companies to stop selling vacation packages that would include a stay in Turkey.

Twenty percent of all vegetables imported into Russian Federation are from Turkey, Interfax reported. Ankara, on the other hand, maintains that Moscow forced it to take strike down a the jet by repeatedly violating Turkish airspace during its bombing campaign in Syria since early October.