President Erdogan: Turkey Won’t Apologize for Shooting down Russian Bomber  

World | November 26, 2015, Thursday // 20:20
Bulgaria: President Erdogan: Turkey Won’t Apologize for Shooting down Russian Bomber    A handout picture provided by Turkish President Press office shows Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaking during a meeting with village headmen, known as mukhtars, in Ankara, Turkey, 26 November 2015. EPA/BGNES

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Ankara won’t apologize for shooting down a Russian bomber because it violated Turkey’s airspace near the country’s border with Syria.

"I think if there is a party that needs to apologize, it is not us," CNN quoted Erdogan as saying in Ankara on Thursday. "Those who violated our airspace are the ones who need to apologize.”

Ankara says the Russian Su-24 warplane violated its airspace on Tuesday and ignored repeated warnings to change course before a Turkish Air Force F-16 jet fighter shot it down. Moscow says that its bomber flew in Syrian airspace as it returned from a mission in support of Syrian government forces when a Turkish air-to-air missile hit it.

 

 

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