Turkey not to pay compensation for Russian plane shooting, says Foreign Ministry

In response to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov's statement on Wednesday which read Turkey should guarantee that shooting down a Russian military plane will not happen again in the future, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said only minutes later, if there is no other violation in the future by Russia, another plane crisis would not repeat itself.

Meshkov had also said that Turkey should pay compensation for last month's incident, to which Turkey's Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgiç said, Turkey will not pay such compensation.

On November 24, two Turkish F-16 fighter jets on an aerial patrol intercepted a Russian warplane within engagement rules.

The intruding aircraft was warned about the violation 10 times within five minutes before it was shot down.

NATO later confirmed the accuracy of the radar trace data that Turkey shared which clearly showed that the Russian warplane violated Turkish airspace.

This was not the first time Russian fighter jets had violated Turkish airspace. In early October, Russian warplanes had breached Turkish airspace for which Russian officials apologized and pledged that no such incident would be repeated; Turkey had also renewed its warning to implement engagement rules, including military response against violations of Turkish airspace.