Turkey shoots down Russian jet on Syrian border

The red line purportedly shows the flight path of the Russian plane that was shot down Tuesday.

Putin sharply criticised Turkey for establishing contact with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to discuss the incident, prior to contacting Russian Federation.

Mr Obama added: “Russia could play a more constructive role if it shifts the focus of its strikes to defeating Isis”.

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“It is most likely that it will be war”, said Felgenhauer, an analyst for liberal Novaya Gazeta.

“They’ll want to defuse the situation pretty quickly”, said Daniel Fiott, a researcher at the Institute for European Studies at the Free University of Brussels. “There were two planes approaching our border, we warned them as they were getting too close”, a senior Turkish official told Reuters. But the Russians, said Alexander Baunov of the Carnegie Moscow Center, behave as if everyone in Syria who is not associated with Assad is to be considered a terrorist.

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan everyone should respect the right of Turkey to defend its borders.

“Every nation has a right to protect its own borders”, said Burns. “It is out of the question for Turkey to have a hostile stance against its neighbors”. Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov cancelled a visit to Turkey that had been due on Wednesday.

Russian aircraft have increased the intensity of their operations across Syria, targeting both Islamic State and Syrian rebel forces.

A Russian Su-24 was downed today by Turkish F-16 jets.

MALCOLM Turnbull says the shooting down of a Russian warplane by Turkey on the Syrian border is of great concern, but restraint should be shown as it is investigated.

Some members of Russia’s parliament called for economic retaliation. Their fate was not certain.

Russian Federation denies that its warplane ever violated Turkish airspace.

Anonymous U.S. officials have told multiple media outlets that the Russian jet did pass into Turkey but it only lasted a matter of seconds. Turkey’s plan had sought to reinforcefriendly rebel groups in northern Syria to the point where they would be able to completely force the Islamic State out of a swath of Aleppo province and thenestablish a no-fly zone over that area.

Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane that Turkey said crossed into its territory from Syria on Tuesday, killing at least one of the two pilots.