The Turkish Foreign Minister has claimed a Russian Su-34 plane violated Turkish airspace at 0946 GMT on Friday despite repeated warnings from Turkish air radar units in Russian and English.
In response to the breach, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
has warned Russia would “have to face consequences if it keeps up such violations.” NATO head Jens Stoltenberg lent his support, saying, “Russia must take all necessary measures to ensure that such violations do not happen again,” lest escalation occur.
However, the Russian Defense Ministry dismissed the claims as “baseless propaganda.”
President Erdogan claims to have sought meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin to diuscuss the crisis in their relationship, but that this request has been met with silence.
