‘Turkey would have acted differently if it had known jet was Russian’

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that Turkey would have acted differently if it had known that a warplane its forces downed on the Syrian border this week was Russian.

“If we had known if it was a Russian plane maybe we would have warned it differently,” Erdogan tells France 24 television, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin had not answered his call after Tuesday’s incident that has seriously damaged ties.

AFP

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey, on November 16, 2015. (Adem Altan/AFP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey, on November 16, 2015. (Adem Altan/AFP)

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