Turkey says Russian Federation jet violated airspace

It fell on Syrian territory 4 kilometers from the Turkish border.

But despite the harsh words, some analysts believe that Russian Federation and Turkey have reasons not to let the incident escalate, because of economic and energy ties and their common opposition to IS.

They also expressed their commitment to a bringing about a transitional political process for peace in Syria and joint determination to continue the fight against Islamic State (IS) jihadists, the statement added.

But Russia’s defence ministry insisted the plane had not violated Turkish airspace.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and warned of “serious consequences”.

Each country summoned a diplomatic representative of the other and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation called a meeting of its ambassadors.

US-led coalition spokesman Colonel Steve Warren has said that it was not yet clear which side the Russian plane was on when shot.

A Russian marine has reportedly been killed in an operation to rescue a Russian pilot whose warplane was shot down over Syria, close to the Turkish border.

However, Reuters cited a Turkish government official, who said that both pilots are alive and Ankara is working to retrieve them from the rebels.

The Russian planes are described in a document, published by WikiLeaks and Al Jazeera, as aircraft “the nationality of which is unknown”.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported a Russian helicopter had also been hit in Syria after the downing of the fighter jet, an attack that was claimed by a Syrian rebel group.

Turkey says it warned the pilots at least 10 times to turn around as the plane was approaching Turkish airspace, but the pilots ignored the warning and crossed the border anyway.

Syrian Turkmen are Syrian citizens of Turkish ethnicity who have lived in Syria since Ottoman times and have coexisted with Syrian Arabs for hundreds of years.

Russian Federation has been conducting airstrikes on Daesh (ISIL) positions at the request of the Syrian government since September 30.

The country changed its rules of engagement a few years ago after Syria shot down a Turkish plane.

Sergei Rumyantsev, a major at Shagol air force base near Chelyabinsk, is thought to have been died when Turkish F-16s gunned down his plane.

Russian Federation denies that its warplane ever violated Turkish airspace.

Turkey backstabbed Russia and acted as accomplices of the terrorists, the Russian president said, according to RT.