"Turkey is a NATO member and we expect explanations not only from the Turkish authorities but also from the North Atlantic Alliance," Nikolay Levichev, a deputy speaker of the Russian State Duma lower parliament house with the A Just Russia Party, was quoted by the party’s press service as saying.
He noted that for the first time after the end of the Cold War a NATO member state had "deliberately downed" a Russian warplane. "We cannot consider it as anything but an act of aggression. We must response to this attack with adequate but tough measures," he stressed.
Turkey, in his words, has completely associated itself with the Islamic State [a terrorist organization outlawed in Russia] by shooting down a Russian warplane. "Judging by the information coverage of the incident by the Turkish side, it was a deliberate provocation," he said.
Earlier on Tuesday, Levichev asked the head of the Federal Aviation Agency to consider banning flights to Turkey following Tuesday’s crash of a Russian Su-24 military jet.
"I am asking you to consider total and immediate termination of air communications between Russia and Turkey until exhausting measures are taken to get rid of any possible sources of terrorist threat at Turkish airports," Levichev said...
[tass.ru]
24/11/15
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