Turkish Foreign Ministry: Russia again violated our airspace – Virtual Poland

• Russia has once again violated Turkish airspace

 • The incident took place on Friday

 • The Turkish authorities have called each other Russian Ambassador

 • Ankara accuses Moscow of escalation of tensions

 • Turkey, Russia called the accusations “groundless propaganda”
 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Russia that it will have to face the consequences if the aircraft will commit violations of Turkish airspace. Ankara Russia called the accusations “groundless propaganda”.

– Russia will have to bear the consequences if you will continue to commit such violations of the sovereign rights of Turkey – the president said after the transfer by the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the Russian machine the day before violated the Turkish space. – Such irresponsible behavior will not serve neither the Russian Federation nor relations between NATO and Russia, or regional or global peace – he warned.
 

Erdogan also said that he had asked the Foreign Ministry to forward that he wanted to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two leaders did not meet the downing in November 2015 years by Turkey of Russian aircraft, which Ankara is also accused of violating airspace.
 

Earlier, Foreign Minister of Turkey announced that it called Russian ambassador in that country in connection with the violation on Friday by Russian aircraft, despite several warnings, the Turkish space. The Ambassador handed over “strong protest” in this case.

In response, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that “there was no violation of Turkish airspace by aircraft of the Russian Air Force in Syria”. – The claims of the Turkish side about the alleged fact of intrusion by Russian aircraft Su-34 are unsubstantiated propaganda – ministry spokesman Igor Konaszenkow.
 

The Communication of Turkish diplomacy underlined that the Russian machine – tactical bomber Su-34 – was repeatedly warned Russian and English, before there was a breach of space. The plane swooped from Syria.
 

The Turkish authorities have warned that Russia will be responsible for undesirable consequences of any such incidents.
 

– This breach is a clear indication that Russia’s actions are aimed at escalating problems, despite clear warnings from our country and NATO – stressed Turkey.
 

“Russia must respect the NATO air space”
 

The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on Russia to “take all necessary steps” to ensure that NATO airspace will not be violated again.
 

“The Russian military plane violated on Friday Turkish airspace despite repeated warnings from the Turkish authorities. Previous such incidents have shown how dangerous it is to such behavior,” – the statement said Stoltenberg.
 

“I call on Russia to behave responsibly and to fully respect the airspace of NATO. Russia must take all necessary steps to ensure that such violations will not be repeated”, – he stressed the Secretary General of the Alliance.
 

Shooting down the Su-24
 

In November 2015 year, Turkey shot down Russian bomber Su-24, which is accused of violating despite warnings by 17 seconds of its airspace near the border with Syria, which caused a crisis in relations between the two countries. Moscow denies and says that the plane did not found himself in the Turkish space. The resulting precipitate was killed Russian aircraft pilot. In response, Russia launched retaliatory measures against Turkey, mainly of an economic nature.
 

Russian aviation since 30 September 2015 has been conducting a military operation in Syria, inflicted by Moscow in the position Islamic State.