Vladimir Putin claims incident was ‘a stab in the back’ while Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says ‘everyone should respect the honest of Turkey to defend its borders’Nato and the United Nations have called for level-headed in the wake of the shooting down of a Russian fighter jet by Turkish aircraft that drew warnings of “serious consequences” from Vladimir Putin. The Russian president described the incident over Turkey’s volatile border with Syria on Tuesday the first time a Nato member state has shot down a Russian warplane since the Korean war in the 1950s – as a “stab in the back by the accomplices of terrorists” and claimed the Russian plane,a Su-24 bomber, had been downed inside Syria while in action against Chechen militants.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com