Turkey says Turkish, Russian minister to meet

“For that money the bandits are recruiting mercenaries, buying weapons and staging cruel terror attacks aimed against our citizens, as well as citizens of France, Lebanon, Mali and other countries”.

US Secretary of State John Kerry was also in the Serbian capital for the annual ministerial council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which he was due to address early Thursday.

Turkey claims the plane breached its airspace and ignored repeated warnings but Russian Federation insists it never crossed the border from Syria and accused Ankara of a planned provocation.

“The Ministry of Agriculture does not plan to expand the list of embargoed food products”, the representative said, as quoted by Russia’s TASS news agency.

“They were called Pravda lies”, he said, referring to the daily newspaper that was the mouthpiece of the Communist Party.

Davutoglu maintained that the Russian characteristics dating back to the Soviet era which were thought to have disappeared after the Cold War have been “re-emerging one by one”.

“No one will give credit to the lies of the Soviet propaganda machine”, he added.

With tensions riding high between Moscow and Ankara following Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian warplane on the Syrian border, Davutoglu said Moscow was again behaving in the same way. The militants shot and killed the downed plane’s pilot while he was descending on parachute and also killed a Russian marine who was involved in rescuing the plane’s co-pilot. “I believe our colleagues, our Turkish neighbours, should understand themselves what they must do”, he said, without elaborating.

FIFA is to monitor the Russian ban on football clubs signing Turkish players, a spokesman for the world governing body said late Wednesday.