Russian Federation putting anti-aircraft missiles in Syria

Turkey, a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member, said it had repeatedly warned the Russian warplane, shooting it down only after it ignored several warnings and violated Turkish airspace. Russian Federation beefs up its air defences in Syria, in response to the downing of its jet.

Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber on Tuesday, saying it crossed into its airspace from Syria despite repeated warnings.

No one should expect Turkey “to remain silent” when its border security is violated, he added.

Russia and the US-led coalition have agreed on a set of guidelines aimed at ensuring pilots stay out of each other’s way, but the prospect of batteries of Russian anti-aircraft missiles arriving in Syria is nonetheless raising eyebrows in the Pentagon.

And commercial ties managed to survive the deep dispute over the future of Russia’s ally and Turkey’s archfoe Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

A statement issued Wednesday by the Syrian armed forces says Syrian and Russian forces penetrated into areas where “terrorists” are entrenched at a depth of 4.5 kilometers (2.7 miles) to rescue the pilot.

Some leading Russian tourist agencies already have suspended the sales of tour packages to Turkey. “The information we have from other allies is consistent with what we have got from Turkey”, Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels. The radical group has claimed responsibility for the November 13 Paris attacks that killed at least 130, as well as the October 31 downing of a Russian passenger plane over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula that killed all 224 aboard.

The prospect that Syrian rebels used United States weaponry to kill a Russian further raises concerns that the Syria conflict could devolve into a proxy war. Erdogan also said Ankara had no intention of escalating tensions with Russian Federation.

Shoigu also said that from now on all Russian bombers will be escorted by fighters on their combat missions in Syria. Turkish Airlines is the largest foreign company operating in Russian Federation and had seen a 16% increase in recent months in passengers using the route.

Hollande was due to discuss Syria and the fight against ISIS with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday (Nov 26). Friction between Ankara and Moscow has also intensified over alleged Russian airstrikes on Syrian villages dominated by Turkmen, an ethnic minority with cultural ties to Turkey.

Murakhtin was eventually found after midnight 4km inside Syria, 12 hours after being shot down, Russian agency LifeNews reports.

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said the Turkish action was a “planned provocation” and rejected his Turkish counterpart’s proposal to meet at the sidelines of some global forum in the coming days to try to ease tensions.

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.

The downing of the plane came as French president François Hollande was visiting Washington prior to a trip to Moscow set for today to narrow the rift between the West and Russian Federation and agree joint action against Islamic State.

Putin also denounced the attack as a “stab in the back” administered by “the accomplices of terrorists”.