Nato and United Nation seek calm over Turkish downing of Russian fighter jet

President of Russia Vladimir Putin claims incident was ‘a stab in the back’ while Recep Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan says ‘everyone should respect the right of Turkey to defend its borders’
 
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Nato and the UN have called for calm in the wake of the downing of a Russian fighter jet by Turkish F-16 aircraft that drew warnings of “serious consequences” from Vladimir Putin.

The Russian president  Vladimir Putin 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.

In Ankara, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, summoned his top generals to an emergency national security meeting to decide Turkey’s next step. The Turkish government said the Russian fighter jet had been warned 10 times to turn back as it approached the border, but had still flown into Turkish airspace for a few seconds. Ankara stressed the incident had followed a string of Russian incursions in recent weeks.