A power tussle over a Russian warplane brought down by a Turkish fighter plane at the outskirt with Syria heightened on Thursday, with Moscow drafting a large number of sanctions against Turkey and the Turkish president resistant pronouncing that his military will shoot down any new trespasser.
The spat mirrored a conflict of desire of two leaders, neither of whom seemed willing to give in and come to terms.
Turkey shot down the Russian Su-24 military plane on Tuesday, demanding it had disregarded its airspace in spite of constant warnings. The occurrence denoted the first run through into equal parts a century that a NATO operative shot down a Russian plane, raising the danger of a military showdown between the organization together and Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin branded the Turkish action as a "treacherous stab in the back," and insisted that the plane was downed over Syrian territory in violation of international laws.
"Until that moment, we haven't heard a clear apology from Turkey's top political leadership, or an offer to compensate for the damage or a promise to punish the criminals," he said at the Kremlin while receiving credentials from several ambassadors. "It gives an impression that the Turkish leadership is deliberately driving Russian-Turkish relations into a deadlock, and we regret that."
But Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in no mood to apologize, and warned that Ankara would act in the same way in the event of another intrusion.
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