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Russia says jet downing 'provocation' as Ankara seeks to ease tensions
Russia Wednesday accused Turkey of a “planned provocation” over the downing of a warplane on the Syrian border but pledged not to go to war as NATO-member Ankara sought to play down tensions.
As the diplomatic fallout from Tuesday's incident raged on, Moscow said Russian and Syrian special forces had rescued one of the pilots who ejected from the burning Russian plane but confirmed the second airman was dead.
“We have serious doubts about this being an unpremeditated act, it really looks like a planned provocation,” Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow.
“We do not plan to go to war with Turkey, our attitude toward the Turkish people has not changed,” Lavrov added, but warned that Moscow would “seriously reevaluate” relations with Ankara.
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday branded the incident a “stab in the back committed by accomplices of terrorists”, recommending that Russians do not visit Turkey, a key tourist destination …. https://www.dailystar.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/11/russia-says-jet-downing-provocation-as.html
